ARCHIVAL AUTHORITY INFORMATION MEETING

ARCHIVAL AUTHORITY INFORMATION MEETING December 4-6, 1998 Yale University New Haven, CT Preliminary agenda

Note: All activities will take place in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall unless otherwise noted.

Friday, December 4

1:30 p.m. Welcome and introductions

1:45 p.m. Logistics

2:00 p.m. Goals of the meeting

2:30 p.m. Defining archival authority information with samples of existing

implementations (discussion paper 1)4:00 p.m.     Expressions of priorities and interest from participants: how does this fit with what is currently being planned or underway
5:00 p.m.     End of day one meeting 7:00 p.m.     Dinner                 The Mory's Association
                306 York Street
                (Please note that Mory's requires jackets and ties for men at evening functions) Saturday, December 5

8:30 a.m. Continental breakfast at Sterling Library

9:00 a.m. The elements of a successful standard and prototype implementation; what does the product look like? (discussion paper 2)
12:00 p.m. Lunch at Sterling Library 1:00 p.m. Elements of the workplan; how are they related; how can the work be divided and assigned to teams? (discussion paper 3)5:00 p.m. End of day two meeting

6:00 p.m. Dinner

Meet in the lobby of The Colony for transportation.

Sunday, December 6

8:30 a.m. Breakfast at Sterling Memorial Library

9:00 a.m. Identify project participants and what roles they
may take responsibility for

12:00 p.m. End of meeting

List of papers addressing archival authority information issues

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French, J. C., A. L. Powell, E. Schulman and J. L. Pfaltz, "Automating the Construction of Authority Files in Digital Libraries: A Case Study," Proc. First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology forDigital Libraries (ECDL'97), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1324, C. Peters and C. Thanos (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Pisa, 1-3 September 1997, pp. 55-71.

McCarthy, Gavan.

Review of National Library of Australia’s Reference Services (submitted to the National Library of Australia Review
of Reference Services)

The University as a locus of authority in linking heritage resources. (Presented at 3 International Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage
Deakin University, Melbourne and Geelong, Australia 4-8 October 1998.)

Engineering Utility: A visionary role for encoded archival authority information in managing virtual and physical resources. (abstract prepared for The Fifth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Ballina, NSW 17-20 April 1999)

Szary, Richard.

Expanding the role of authority files in the archival context. (Presented November 1, 1985 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Austin, Texas.)
Design requirements for archival authority systems. (Presented at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, October 2, 1988, Atlanta, Georgia.)