Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team will review findings from focus group interviews with archivists and review overall project recommendations.
The full series
In a series of three webinars, members of the OCLC Research team will give an overview of the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project research. Presenters will share the methodologies used, findings regarding the experiences of archivists and end users, and overall recommendations. You can register individually or for the full series below:
- Tuesday, 13 June 2023 (12:00 pm–1:00 pm EDT): Introduction and project recommendations
- Tuesday, 11 July 2023 (12:00 pm–1:00 pm EDT): End user survey and interviews
- Tuesday, 1 August 2023 (12:00 pm–1:00 pm EDT): Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis
Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis webinar
Presenters
- Chela Scott Weber, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research Library Partnership
- Lesley Langa, Associate Research Scientist, OCLC Research
- Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Manager, OCLC Research
- Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Executive Director, OCLC Research
Description
Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) was an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded (grant number LG-246349-OLS-20) research and demonstration project with the goal of providing inclusive, comprehensive, and persistent access to descriptions of archival collections, or "finding aids." OCLC Research led qualitative research with end users and contributors of archival description and quantitative analysis of extant aggregated archival description from state and regional aggregators.
Join members of the OCLC Research NAFAN team to learn about our findings from focus group interviews with archivists. The interviews provided insight into existing description and aggregation workflows, challenges, and benefits and what possibilities a national archival finding aid aggregation might bring. This session will also provide an overview of the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC Research which focused on how extant EAD data might support a future national finding aid aggregation effort.
All affiliates of OCLC Research Library Partnership organizations are invited to participate.
Date
01 August 2023
Time
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Live webinar sessions are exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners, but the recordings are publicly available to all.