Archon: Facilitating Global Access to Collections in Small Archives Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3857938, abstract = {A significant portion of the world's historical papers and records are preserved not by large centralized government repositories, but isolated in modest humble academic and municipal archives and special collections libraries. These repositories often find it difficult to provide electronic access to their collections information. Archon is a collections management tool that was developed by the University of Illinois to help augment such access for these unique repositories. Archon is an easy, web-based application created specifically for describing archival materials and providing access to digital objects. It includes collection management features most commonly used by archives and special collections libraries and supports all relevant descriptive standards that ensure effective interoperability with other information access systems and resources. Archon can play a significant role in larger efforts to augment access to special collections within local contexts used to supplement regional and international projects. The University of Illinois is seeking to engage a broad user community in defining and implementing innovative extensions to its existing application to better serve archives and special collections libraries and their users.}, author = {Schwartz, Scott W. and Prom, Christopher and Fox, Kyle and Sorensen, Paul}, booktitle = {WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 74TH IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL 10-14 August 2008, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada}, citeulike-article-id = {3857938}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/159-Schwartz_Prom_Fox_Sorensen-en.pdf}, keywords = {archival-description, collection-management, digital-archives, open-source-software, special-collections}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2009-01-07 18:48:11}, priority = {4}, title = {Archon: Facilitating Global Access to Collections in Small Archives}, url = {http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/159-Schwartz_Prom_Fox_Sorensen-en.pdf}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3857938 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3857938 N2 - A significant portion of the world’s historical papers and records are preserved not by large centralized government repositories, but isolated in modest humble academic and municipal archives and special collections libraries. These repositories often find it difficult to provide electronic access to their collections information. Archon is a collections management tool that was developed by the University of Illinois to help augment such access for these unique repositories. Archon is an easy, web-based application created specifically for describing archival materials and providing access to digital objects. It includes collection management features most commonly used by archives and special collections libraries and supports all relevant descriptive standards that ensure effective interoperability with other information access systems and resources. Archon can play a significant role in larger efforts to augment access to special collections within local contexts used to supplement regional and international projects. The University of Illinois is seeking to engage a broad user community in defining and implementing innovative extensions to its existing application to better serve archives and special collections libraries and their users. TI - Archon: Facilitating Global Access to Collections in Small Archives T2 - WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 74TH IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL 10-14 August 2008, Québec, Canada KW - archival-description KW - collection-management KW - digital-archives KW - open-source-software KW - special-collections AU - Schwartz, Scott AU - Prom, Christopher AU - Fox, Kyle AU - Sorensen, Paul PY - 2008/08// UR - http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/papers/159-Schwartz_Prom_Fox_Sorensen-en.pdf ER -