New Report: “Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project ”
The report and additional materials linked below were recently published online by OCLC Research.
Title
Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project
Authors
Chela Scott Weber
Senior Program Officer
Itza A. Carbajal
Associate Researcher
Lesley A. Langa
Associate Research Scientist
Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Executive Director, Research
Brooke Doyle
Senior Project Coordinator
Brittany Brannon
Senior Research Specialist
Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Manager
Source
via OCLC Research, California Digital Library
DOI:10.25333/7a4c-0r03
About the Project
From 2020–2023, OCLC was a partner on Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN), an IMLS-supported research and demonstration project to build the foundation for a national archival finding aid network to address the inconsistency and inequity of the current archival discovery landscape (LG-246349-OLS-20). The project was led by the California Digital Library (CDL), with partners at OCLC, the University of Virginia Library, Shift Collective, and Chain Bridge Group.
OCLC led research for the project, undertaking an investigation of both end user and contributor needs in relation to finding aid aggregations, and an evaluation of the quality and consistency of existing EAD encoded finding aid data from regional archival aggregators.
The NAFAN findings represent an unprecedented effort in research serving the archival community. This research provides valuable insight that can be used by the NAFAN project and inform other projects serving archival researchers and archivists, those wishing to leverage archival descriptive data, and researchers of archives and archival users for exploring new paths of inquiry for their own research.
Direct to Full Text Report
36 pages.
Direct Links to Additional Materials
Project Details
Buidling a National Finding Aid Network
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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