Dear all

To follow up from Anna St. Onge's announcement last Friday about the new
Archeion site (www.archeion.ca), I'd like to update you on a few things
about how the new site works and to ask for your help in making it even
better.

The new Archeion supports the international standard for describing
institutions with archival holdings (ISDIAH) and we have created skeleton
ISDIAH records for each of the repositories with records in Archeion. These
are linked to from the archival descriptions in Archeion and can also be
browsed from the 'Archival Institutions' link on the home page of the site.

If your institution has records in Archeion, please check its ISDIAH record
for accuracy and email me if there is anything which needs to be changed.

The new system extracts information about the creators of archives into a
separate authority record, rather than including it in the archival
description. This has generally worked well in the migration of our existing
descriptions, but occasionally can have unexpected results in descriptions
with multiple creators or with collections, depending upon how they have
been described. Please look through your institution's Archeion descriptions
and, again, email me if there is anything wrong with them that you would
like to correct.

Work is under way on creating manuals for the new system, which will be
available in 2012. At this stage, we are concentrating on making sure that
the existing information in Archeion is accurate and up to date, before
starting to add new information.

We are setting up Archeion training events for March 2012 and are still
looking for a suitable venue in the Eastern region of Ontario (Ottawa,
specifically). Please get in touch if you are able to offer a training room
with computers or with a wireless network which we could use.

Thanks in advance for your help with this.

Amanda

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Amanda Hill
Archeion Coordinator
416-929-4447
www.archeion.ca
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Archives Association of Ontario
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