Manuscript Collections: the Archival Collections at the Center for Dubuque History

Archival collections in physiology.

Archival collections are important in preserving our historical heritage. An example of a new archival collection in high-altitude physiology and medicine is described. Physiologists should be more aware of the historical value of primary material and should be encouraged to offer their papers to an appropriate archival repository.

Manuscript collections: The Jeannette Dean-Throckmorton papers.

Encoded Archival Description for Numismatic Collections

Developed in the 1990s and revised in 2002, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an XML encoding standard commonly used in libraries and archives in the United States and Europe to describe collections of paper materials, for example, manuscripts and photographs. Numerous physical, organizational, and categorical facets of the collections can be described in EAD, including physical materials, ...

Visualization for Archival Appraisal of Large Digital Collections

Our research examines data-driven visualization methods for archival purposes. Using data extracted from a large and heterogeneous digital collection, we created an information visualization that uses RDBMS and treemap to enable archival analysis. Different views present the collection’s structure and properties at different levels of aggregation and abstraction, transforming 1,000,000 data poi...

Participatory Appraisal and Arrangement for Multicultural Archival Collections

Archival theory has a long history of utilizing principles designed to preserve contextual value in records. We believe that traditional practices of appraisal, arrangement, and description can be rearticulated as participatory, community-orient­ ed processes. This can enable context to be represented meaningfully in archives of traditionally marginalized communities. We believe this process ca...