Malleable finding aids

Authors:
Scott R. Anderson;Robert B. Allen
Affiliations:
Ganser Library, Millersville University, Millersville, PA;School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We show a prototype implementation of a Wiki-based Malleable Finding Aid that provides features to support user engagement and we discuss the contribution of individual features such as graphical representations, a table of contents, interactive sorting of entries, and the possibility for user tagging. Finally, we explore the implications of Malleable Finding Aids for collections which are richly inter-linked and which support a fully social Archival Commons.