1. MAA-Ann Arbor, June 2013 by Marian Matyn

2.  What does ketchup have to do with EAD?

3.  Senator Heinz died in 1991  His papers at Carnegie Mellon University one of first online and searchable MS collections  Widely discussed  Huge impact

5.  Wow! The possibilities!  Archivist/conference conversations  Haves/Have nots  How to get FAs online -and searchable?  EAD

6.  Since 1997 I wanted to put FAs online and make them searchable  By 2008 began to get unit support  UM offered to host webpage  Attended SAA EAD workshop 2008  Educated self

7.  I piloted/led the project Jan.-Dec. 2009  Hired Nicole Garret as consultant, selected template  Clarke purchased XMLSpyware  Prioritized FAs to encode, workflow  Established contact and plan with Chris Powell at UM.  Developed webpage with UM help  Determined protocols  Encoding began July 2009

8.  Older FAs updated, encoded, reviewed  Pre-1997 FAs have to be retyped, etc.  I send EAD files via email to Chris  Chris validates, fixes, adds to full text online; emails me  I link FA online to the MARC catalog record in CENTRA

12.  25% of my time  # 38 FAs encoded, 49 Cu. Ft. (6 months)  Improve/increase user access to, use of, awareness of the Clarke’s manuscript collections  Learned a new skill  Successfully completed another project  Collaboration, made new friends

13.  Nov. 2009 collaboration with Daniel Pitti on IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) grant project Social Networks and Archival Authority Records.  Develop a prototype system for open source online access using archival authority control to serve access and research objectives.  Should improve user access, increase use of collections, good national collaboration

14.  Dana Fey encoded 2 largest collections  Aladdin Company records, 350 cubic ft.  Senator Robert P. Griffin Papers, 416 cubic ft.

15.  Ongoing new/old FAs encoded by Dec. 2013  281 FAs left, 11 are 10-65’  To date 210 FAs, 1410.5’ encoded  Hope to implement info from Pitti  Consider new software  Hope MI becomes a research hub

16.  Government records housed at Clarke  Collections on deposit, loan  Inventories

17.  http://clarke.cmich.edu click on FAs http://clarke.cmich.edu  Marian Matyn Archivist/Assistant Professor  marian.matyn@cmich.edu marian.matyn@cmich.edu  989.774.3990  http://archivistrising.blogspot.com