Free Archival Education Workshops

Don't miss these archival education workshops available free of charge to staff working in Florida's libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage organizations. Students and interns in Florida also are eligible for free workshop registration. These workshops are co-sponsored by the Florida Center for Library Automation, and many partners including Florida International University, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, the University of Central Florida, Florida State University, St. Petersburg College, the University of West Florida, and others.

Participants in each workshop will be encouraged to create and share collection finding aids via the Web and via the statewide Archives Florida database hosted by the Florida Center for Library Automation.

INTRODUCTION TO ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION

Florida International University (Miami, FL) June 13, 2008
Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) June 20, 2008

This one-day workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard, and includes hands-on exercises with typical tools, templates and workflows that trainees might use to create and share encoded finding aids (inventories) describing their organization's rare and special collections. Those who complete the workshop should be familiar enough with EAD to create encoded finding aids and understand their options for sharing and delivering archival information online. This workshop is most appropriate for those who are comfortable working with desktop computers, common text editing software such as Windows NotePad, common Web browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox, and who have some familiarity with arranging and describing archival collections, museum collections, or similar materials.

STYLESHEETS FOR EAD - DELIVERING YOUR FINDING AIDS ON THE WEB

University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) July 10-11, 2008
University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) July 14-15, 2008

Taught by the Society of American Archivists instructors, this two-day workshop provides an introduction to style sheets, in particular the XSLT programming language, as they are used to format archival finding aids for the Web. If you have an understanding of the EAD element set and the HTML encoding scheme, you're ready to take the next big step and create or modify style sheets. Upon completing this workshop, participants will have a fundamental understanding of the XSLT stylesheet language and concepts, and will have produced a stylesheet and reviewed how it affects the display of an EAD-encoded archival finding aid.

INTRO TO ARCHON ARCHIVES MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

St. Petersburg College, Sept. 25-26, 2008

This two-day workshop, taught by the creators of the Open-Source "Archon" archives management software, will explain the possible uses and customizations of the software and its multiple, optional modules. Participants will use the Archon software to create collection descriptions, and will learn how to export and share collection descriptions created in Archon into other formats such as MARC and EAD.

REGISTRATION:
Registrations will be accepted and confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email Chuck Thomas specifying your full name, job title, organization you work for, full work mailing address, telephone number, email address, and which date/location of this workshop you wish to attend. You will be notified by email about registration confirmation.

Attendance is limited to a maximum of 20 participants for each workshop,
Registration will be limited to a maximum of 2 participants from any organization.
Workshop registration is free for those working in Florida.
Participants will be responsible for paying for their own lunch.