James Truitt (he/him)I keep being assigned textbooks from the aughts and 2010s for my metadata class, and the lack of engagement with archival theory is really something. Like, no one is interested in archivists' work with aggregates, or questioning that description should be done at anything besides item level. Wild
It's especially interesting given that this is when the MPLP movement is taking off in archives world, too.
And I also find it bemusing that folks thinking about digital facsimiles and metadata in this period don't seem to have drawn much from thought or practice around microformat facsimiles, at least, not that I've seen yet
Anyway, it keeps bugging me that the lists of metadata standards I keep encountering often include EAD but never DACS. Like, you put AACR2 on here but not MARC, so what gives?
David Moles@linguistory I feel like there’s some interesting disciplinary and/or intellectual history hiding in there
@linguistory possibly also somehow related to the fact that DACS is free and AACR2/RDA cost money (although I admit I don’t have a concrete idea just what the connections might be)