Dear Colleagues
Not being an archivist I hesitate to ask the following but your help
would be appreciated.
The 'Charles Close Society Archives' (material relating to the Ordnance
Survey maps
http://www.charlesclosesociety.org.uk/ccsarchives.html
) are deposited in Cambridge University Library Map Department. They have been catalogued by a volunteer (in an Excel spreadsheet) and the catalogue will soon be mounted on A2A.
The volunteer will receive a copy of the catalogue back as an EAD file.
We need to be able to view *and add to* this file (the archive grows by several hundred items a year).
Do you have any advice on viewing/cataloguing software which would enable us to do this?
We have identified:
- Oxygen
- Note Tab
- Xmetal
but have no experience of any. I have spoken to archivists in Cambridge but they are unable to help directly.
It would seem sensible to keep the file in a format that would allow us to send regular updates to A2A which they could then load with minimum additional processing.
The catalogue is fairly simple though currently has ca. 7,000 records. There is the possibility of a small budget. Whatever we use needs to work with Windows.
Many thanks
Anne
Anne Taylor
Head of Map Department, Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR
Tel: 01223-333041. Fax: 01223-333160. email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/maps/
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