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Common portal for Archives information



I have had suggestions to look at a couple of sites that are doing
some of what I had mentioned in my previous post.  I checked those
sites and the major part of the project I had suggested is missing
(or at least I didn't see it).  I proposed a common "database" of
information about all of the collections so that you would have
one place to search to find where a particular collection is located.
On one of the sites suggested for my viewing there is a search
function, but it only searches the locations that are referenced
not the collections at that location.  For example, if I wanted the
John Smith collection and it happened to be at State University,
I could search for John Smith and find nothing, but I could search
for State University and that would come up.  That type of search
doesn't help you find a particular collection; it only allows you
to find places that have collections.

Of course, the portal I proposed would only be helpful if MANY sites
participated.  I had two responses that were favorable toward the
project.  Are there any others?  Maybe we could just ask the
existing portal sites to add search capabilities of all the collections
available from the sites they reference (that would require the
cooperation of those sites).

What do you think?

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Michael Pullin                                    E-mail: mpullin@lib.swbts.edu
Archivist and Special Collections Librarian         Tel (817) 923-1921 Ext 3338
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary                    Fax (817) 921-8765
PO Box 22000
Fort Worth, TX  76122-0490

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