Offered on an irregular basis
PREREQUISITES:
MAS and Dual Students: completion of the MAS core courses
MLIS students: completion of the MLIS core courses, plus permission of the UBC iSchool Graduate Advisor
GOAL: The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to using open-source software for archival description to create standards-compliant archival descriptions for public access.
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of the course, students will:
- Use open-source software in archives
- Implement standards in archival description software
- Compare RAD and ISAD(G) for archival description
- Identify core elements at different levels of description
- Manage relationships between archival descriptions, authority records, functions and repository descriptions
- Describe and manage access to digital objects
- Use EAD to move descriptions between systems
CONTENT:
- Creating hierarchical archival descriptions using RAD
- Creating authority records compliant with the ICA ISAAR(CPF) standard
- Creating function descriptions compliant with the ICA ISDF standard
- Creating repository descriptions compliant with the ICA ISDIAH standard
- Creating hierarchical taxonomies and use them to add access points to archival descriptions
- Uploading digital objects and attaching them to archival descriptions
- Exporting archival descriptions using Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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