2005 Mai 26 - 28

Bundesarchiv, Building 912 (Casino), Conference room

Participants:

Paul Bantzer Berlin Startext, Sebastian Barteleit Berlin Bundesarchiv , Anne van Camp Mountain View RLG, Werner Engel Marburg Archivschule Marburg, Michael J. Fox Saint Paul, EAD-Working Group, Rainer Jacobs Koblenz Bundesarchiv, Dirk W. Koss Berlin Bundesarchiv, Marco Kanow Berlin Startext, Anna Laszuk Warsaw Naczelny Dyrektor Archiwow Panstwowych, Anke Löbnitz Berlin Bundesarchiv, Gerald Maier Stuttgart Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Noèl Marx Bonn Startext, Angelika Menne-Haritz Berlin Bundesarchiv, Per-Gunnar Ottosson Stockholm Riksarkivet, Daniel V. Pitti Charlottesville EAD-Working Group, Merrilee Proffitt Mountain View RLG, Claire Sibille Paris Direction des Archives de France, William Stockting London The National Archives, Marc Strassenburg Koblenz Bundesarchiv

Thursday 2005 Mai 26

9:00

Welcome
Timetable and agenda

Angelika Menne-Haritz

Introduction and framework of the meeting
Aims of the project: pilot application and capturing tool
Situation in Germany and in the Federal Archives concerning descriptive standards
Preliminary and preparatory works of the project

Claire Sibille

The interests of Directorate of Archives of France in EAD-EAC-METS
Discussion on:
Interests and experiences of other European archival administrations, especially Great Britain and Poland concerning international standardisation
Perspectives for a joint European gateway for access to archival collections and digitisation initiatives of the EU

Michael Fox:

EAD: The stand of the art in the international context, what is seen as advantages, as problems and what may be further developments?
Discussion on
The use of EAD for holdings guides and collection level description in other countries.
Is there a need for grouping possibilities with <eadgrp>
What should be searchable?

Anne van Camp:

RLG and EAD: Perspectives and development of the data base and the presentation and their implications for international contributors Discussion on
The use of administrative information: <processinfo>, <appraisal> etc.
Connections and relations to local presentations
Implications for regional gateways

Per-Gunnar Ottosson:

EAC: The standard and the first examples of its use.
Discussion on
What can be done with EAC for the presentation of holdings guides?
The difference between holdings guides and records creator description
Mapping examples?

Friday 2005 Mai 27

9:00

Merrilee Proffitt

METS: The background of the standard, its structure and experiences with its application.
Discussion on:
Presentation models
The extent of data needed in the different categories of the standard
The identification of images: universal identifiers?

Daniel Pitti

The linking capacities of the three standards
Discussion on
The needs for linking between METS, EAD and EAC especially in the German or other international context
The best techniques for linking
Linking as a feature on the archivists desk: design challenges for easy to use tools

Paul Bantzer, Noèl Marx and Marco Kanow (Startext)

Fist experiences with building specialised editors on the basis of open source software
Discussion on
How to find the balance between flexibility and easy use?
Restricted element sets for special applications as profiles?
Reference models for templates?

Consequences of the two days for the pilot-application of the <daofind>-project.
What should be on the agenda for the planned 3^rd European conference on EAD and EAC in Berlin in 2006?
Necessary and possible coalitions with other partners?

Saturday 2005 Mai 28

9:00 – open end

If necessary: Round table for remaining questions
What should be the next steps?
What can be done together? Were are different interests and were are the same?
How could they be harmonized or supplementing each other?

Afternoon: excursion