Collaboration and Education: Engaging High School Students With EAC-CPF Research

Abstract

The Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University received a Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections grant from March 2013 to March 2014 for processing the archives of the Roland Park Company. The grant included partnerships between the Archives and Technical Services to create a Best Practices for EAC-CPF records, as well as a local high school history class to complete the required research. Rather than simplify International Standard Archival Authority Record For Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families and EAC-CPF for the students, project staff distilled them into discrete, easy-to-understand tasks that allowed for the production of controlled data in a high school environment.

KEYWORDS:

• EAC-CPF
• ISAAR
• hidden collections
• Roland Park
• best practices
• Johns Hopkins University
• collaboration
• high school students

Notes

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