BERKELEY FINDING AID CONFERENCE PAPERS

APRIL 4-6, 1995

In April 1995, the Commission on Preservation and Access funded a conference on the Berkeley Finding Aid Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of the conference, attended by 70 representatives of special collections, archives, libraries, and museums, was to build a consensus to advance the development of an encoding standard for finding aids, and to initiate the process of making the development a community effort.

The Conference, held April 4-6 in the Morrison Room of the Doe Library, comprised a series of papers, demonstrations, and discussions. The papers from the Conference are here made available. Project staff anticipate that they will make the conference report available soon.

Patricia McClung: Access to Primary Sources: During and After the Digital Revolution
Steven Hensen: NISTF II: The Berkeley Finding Aids Project and New Paradigms of Archival Description and Access
Steven J. DeRose: Structured Information: Navigation, Access, Control
Daniel V. Pitti: Settling the Digital Frontier: The Future of Scholarly Communication in the Humanities