EAD Adoption and Diffusion

This study seeks to measure the degree to which EAD has diffused and been adopted by the archival community in the United States. This research is also examining whether relationships exist between adoption and such variables as institutional size, technological expertise, prior adoption of descriptive standards (MARC), and funding. Two groups will be surveyed, archivists who enrolled in an Encoded Archival Description Workshop sponsored by Research Libraries Group and the Society of American Archivists between 1993 and 2002 and a control group, a stratified random sample of Society of American Archivists members who did not enroll in these workshops.

Investigators: Elizabeth Yakel and SI Doctoral Student Jihyun Kim

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