titleproper tags bracket Winding aid titles and acqinfo tags bracket acquisition information. These tags make it easier to search Winding aids for speciWic information, like persname (or personal name) for example, and also allow for different displays of your document. I'm no xml or EAD expert, so I won't go into details here, but there are many resources on the internet for learning more about how this works, if you're interested. The encoded Winding aid placed on your institution's website (or elsewhere) is how users Wind out what it is you have and how they know what to ask for once they're there. So, to sum up, all of these steps are reasons why I don't like the word archiving. It's only my personal opinion ‐‐ a search of professional archives listservs show that other archivists use it all the time ‐‐ but hopefully by showing you how many processes are involved, I've
A section of an encoded finding aid
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