Investigating the "small world" of literary archival collections: the impact of EAC-CPF on archival descriptive practices – Part 1: Relationships, description and the archival community

Authors

Katherine M. Wisser, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons CollegeFollow

Abstract

This article opens an exploration of the description of relationships between entities made possible by the new standard, Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF). Presents the results of a survey conducted in 2013 to gauge the archival descriptive community's perceptions of the significance of contextual information, relationship types, and other aspects of relationship description. Survey results indicate that the archival descriptive community has just begun to think about relationships in a formal way.

Recommended Citation

Wisser, Katherine M. (2015) "Investigating the "small world" of literary archival collections: the impact of EAC-CPF on archival descriptive practices – Part 1: Relationships, description and the archival community," Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 2, Article 1.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol2/iss1/1