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

6:30 p.m.      Meet in the lobby of The Colony for transportation to dinner.

  

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
 
  National Science Foundation announcement
 

List of papers addressing archival authority information issues
 

Durance, Cynthia.  "Authority Control: Beyond a Bowl of Alphabet Soup."   Archivaria.  No. 35.  Spring 1993, 38-46.
 

European Union Archive Network

INFO2000 Programme description
Evans, Max.  "Authority Control:  An Alternative to the Record Group Concept"  American Archivist. Vol. 49, No. 3, Summer 1986, 249-261.
 

French, J. C., A. L. Powell, E. Schulman and J. L. Pfaltz.

"Automating the Construction of Authority Files in Digital Libraries: A Case Study," (PostScript version)  (PDF version)  (HTML slide presentation) Proc. First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital 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)
 
Ottosson, Per-Gunnar.
"Standards and the Development of Archival Systems at the National Archives of Sweden."  Paper for the conference, "The Impact of Information Technology on Academic Archives," Sept. 4, 1998.
Roe, Kathleen.  "Enhanced Authority Control: Is It Time?"  Archivaria.  No. 35.  Spring 1993, 119-129.
 

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.)