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Archival Resources

Archival Organizations

Society of American Archivists (SAA)
http://www.archivists.org/

Academy of Certified Archivists
http://www.certifiedarchivists.org

Association of Moving Image Archivists
http://www.amianet.org/

International Council on Archives
http://www.ica.org/

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/

Midwest Archive Conference (MAC)
http://www.midwestarchives.org

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov

New England Archivists
http://www.lib.umb.edu/newengarch/

SAA Directory of Archival Organizations in the United States and Canada
http://www.archivists.org/assoc-orgs/directory/index.asp

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Related Organizations

Association for Information and Image Management International (AIIM International)
http://www.aiim.org/

Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)
http://www.arma.org/

Institute of Certified Records Managers
http://mindspring.com/~dschewe/index.html

National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators
http://www.nagara.org/

National Coalition for History
http://www.h-net.org/~nch/

National Historical Publications and Records Commission
http://www.archives.gov/grants/

UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org

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Listservs

UMCLIS-L list
UMCLIS-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
http://www.clis.umd.edu/services/clislist.html
This list is used for general, interesting, provocative topics like happy hour, moving sales, discussion of burning issues, jobs, etc.

ATCLIS list
atclis@listserv.umd.edu
ATCLIS is for official CLIS business announcements: deadlines, event announcements, policy changes. You should automatically be subscribed. Please contact the Student Services Office to be added to the list.

CLIS archives list
clis-archives@umd.edu
Please contact Professor Susan Davis to be added to the list.

AMIA-L: An Online Forum for Moving Image Archivists
http://www.amianet.org/amial/amial.html

Archives listserv
listserv@listserv.muohio.edu
http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

Records management listserv
http://www.arma.org/resources/listserv.cfm

SAA Students Listserve
saastudents@lists.archivists.org
http://www.archivists.org/students/index.asp

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Audio/Visual

Online Resources

American Film Institute
http://www.afi.com/

Resources of AMIA Cataloging Interest Group:
http://www.amianet.org/committees/CoM/Cataloging/resources.html

Core Bibliographic Record for Moving Image Materials Library of Congress (1997)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/coremim.html

The Home Film Preservation Guide
http://www.filmforever.org/

Moving Image Collections
http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/

The Moving Image Genre-Form Guide (MIG-FG).
Library of Congress, Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html

National Film Preservation Foundation
http://www.filmpreservation.org/

National Park Service
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html

Radio Form/Genre Terms Guide (RADFG).
Library of Congress, Motion Picture/Broadcasting, Recorded Sound Section.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/frmgen.html

Print Resources

AMIA Compendium of Moving Image Cataloging Practice
Co-published by SAA and AMIA (2001)
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=308

Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloging Manual, 2nd ed. (AMIM2).
Library of Congress (2000)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/catman.html#amima
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/amimcovr.html (draft version)

The FIAF Cataloguing Rules for Film Archives
(K.G. Saur, 1991).

IPI Media Storage Quick Reference (2004)
http://www.rit.edu/ipi

Moving Image Materials (MIM).
Library of Congress (1988)

Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) (2004)

SMPTE (Society of Moving Pictures and Television Engineers) Metadata Dictionary

“Two Genre and Form Lists for Moving Image and Broadcast Materials: a Comparison,”
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 31, no. 3/4 (2001) pp. 237-295. Published simultaneously in The Audiovisual Cataloging Current, ed. Sandra K. Roe. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2001: 237-295.

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Glossary/Thesaurus

Art & Architecture Thesaurus On Line (AAT). The J. Paul Getty Trust.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/index.html

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology
http://www.archivists.org/glossary/

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM-I). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre & Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM-II). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/

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Metadata

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html

Metacrap: Putting the Torch to the Straw-Men of Meta-Utopia
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm

Metadata Principles and Practicalities
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html

OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group
http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/

Questions Meta Data Can Answer
http://www.tdan.com/i011fe01.htm

XML - The Future of Metadata
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~visible/papers/xml-metadata.htm

The XML Cover Pages: XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xmi.html

Metadata Resources

Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

Metadata Resources, Minnesota State Archives
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/metadataresources.html

UKOLN Metadata Page
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

Metadata Standards

Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (CESSE): Metadata Standards Directory
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/meta.html

Dictionary - Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (Draft Standard, NISO Z39.87-2002; AIIM 20-2002)
http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=731

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001)
http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=725
http://dublincore.org

e-Government Metadata Standard (UK Office of the e-Envoy)
http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/Resources/Guidelines/fs/en

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC): Metadata
http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov/metadata/metadata.html

Library of Congress Digital Repository Development: Core Metadata Elements
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html

Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard (METS)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-overview.html

Metadata Standards Directory (CEESE)
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/meta.html

Metadata Standards and Information Analysis: A Survey of Current Metadata Standards and Underlying Models
http://www.geocities.com/ronaldsnijder/

Minnesota Recordkeeping Metadata Standard (Minnesota Office of Technology Standard IRM 20)
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/metadatastandard.html

New South Wales Recordkeeping Metadata Standard
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publicsector/erk/metadata/rkmetadata.htm

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
http://www.openarchives.org/index.html

Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections: Exposure Draft
http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/pmeta.html

PROS 99/007 Standard for the Management of Electronic Records, Specification 2: VERS Metadata Scheme (Public Record Office Victoria)
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/standards/pros9907.htm

Recordkeeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies (Australia)
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/summary.htm

Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (NASA, Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), ISO/DIS 14721.2)
http://www.ccsds.org/documents/650x0b1.pdf

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium): The Semantic Web / Resource Description Framework (RDF)
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Crosswalks

Mapping Between Metadata Formats
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/interoperability/

Issues in Crosswalking Content Metadata Standards
http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/crsswalk.html

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Preservation/Conservation

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/aic/

The Association for Preservation Technology
http://www.apti.org/

Canadian Conservation Institute
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/

Convervation OnLine
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Council on Library and Information Resources
http://www.clir.org/

Getty Conservation Institute
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/institute/

Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~conserv/hp-hc.htm

IFLA Core Programme for Preservation and Conservation (PAC)
http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm

National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/

National Preservation Office
http://www.bl.uk/services/preservation/

Northeast Document Conservation Center
http://www.nedcc.org/

PRESERV - The RLG Preservation Program
http://lyra.rlg.org/preserv/

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Technology

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
http://www.loc.gov/ead/

Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC 21)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

Trustworthy Information Systems (TIS) Project
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/tis/tis.html

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
http://www.w3.org/

Electronic Records Projects

Electronic Records Resources, Minnesota State Archives
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/workshops/edarchivistser.html

InterPARES
http://www.interpares.org/

MN Electronic Records Management Guidelines
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/electronicrecords/erguidelines.html

NARA Electronic Records Archives (ERA)
http://www.archives.gov/electronic_records_archives/index.html

Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

XML

W3C XML Site
http://www.w3.org/XML/

Frequently Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language
http://www.ucc.ie/xml/

XML.org
http://www.xml.org

XML.gov
http://xml.gov/index.asp

XML Resources, Minnesota State Archives
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/xmlresources.html

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Student Chapters

SAA Student Chapters
http://www.archivists.org/students/chap_dir.asp

Chapters and Loose Papers: SAA Student Archivist Newsletter
Spring 2007: http://www.indiana.edu/~saarchiv/newsletter.html

Fall 2007: http://chaptersandloosepapers.wetpaint.com/