"The Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC) will address the ongoing challenge of transforming description of and improving access to primary humanities resources through the use of advanced technologies."
A collaboration between the University of Virginia, UC Berkeley and the California Digital Library, the SNAC project seems an intriguing link between existing EAD-encoded finding aids and creating context, especially on the lives of people documented in various sources. Made possible by a variety of data contributors as well as the new standard EAC-CPF, this project and resulting prototypes and open source solutions will change the face of archival description. Much more information here.
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