Training Day

The next Training Day for contributors (and potential contributors) will be on Monday February 25th, 2008, at The University of Manchester. If you would like to attend, please email archiveshub@mimas.ac.uk. Photo copyright © National Co-operative Archive. All enquiries about photographic collections and copyright to archive@co-op.ac.uk.

Training Day

The Archives Hub is holding a training day for contributors and potential contributors on Tuesday 25 September here at the University of Manchester. The day is free and will run from 10.30 to 16.00 with a free lunch provided. This is a great opportunity for anyone who would like to know more about EAD and about creating descriptions and indexing entries for the Hub. If you would like to attend please email us. Illustration: Woodcraft Folk photo copyright © National Co-operative Archive.

Contributors' Training Day

The Archives Hub will be holding a free training/information day in Manchester for archivists and information professionals who would like to contribute information about their archives to the service. Date: Tuesday 5 December 2006 Location: Kilburn Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. (maps) Time: 11.00 - 16.30. Lunch: a free lunch will be provided The day will include: A short introduction to the Archives Hub and to latest developments, including the new Spokes software. A short introduction to the benefits of XML and to using EAD Using the online template to create descriptions Indexing for the Archives Hub Hands on experience of creating records using the template Please email Jane if you'd like to attend this event.

Training new archivists

Jane and I had a great day yesterday in Aberystwyth, training the proto-archivists there in using XML and EAD. We've been given a copy of XMetaL software by Blast Radius for use in these sessions which really helps to give the students a feel for encoding descriptions in EAD. The trainee archivists were discussing a joke I'd forgotten about: Where did Noah keep his bees? In the ark-hives

Archives Hub Contributors' Training Day

On the 10 April 2006 we'll be holding a training day for people who would like to contribute information about their archives to the Archives Hub. The Hub's scope is archives held in UK universities and colleges, so the training is aimed at people working in such institutions. The training day covers the process of creating EAD descriptions of archives using the Hub's online template. It also includes a very nice free lunch at Manchester Business School.

Opportunity for training in EAD

The Society of Archivists' EAD/Data Exchange Group will be running an Introduction to EAD training day on 25 April 2006. Both Amanda and Jane are part of the Group Committee, and, together with Bill Stockting from TNA, they will be the tutors for this course. For those Hub contributors who want to know more about XML in general, and EAD in particular, this course provides a good general introduction. It also gives delegates the chance to create an EAD record from scratch, using XML editing software. This course is not aimed specifically at Hub contributors, so it will not be about the Hub implementation of EAD, but will look at general principles of using EAD. Whilst many contributors may be happy to use the Hub template to create records, it can be worthwhile to learn more about the prinicples behind EAD, and gain a greater understanding of the syntax and semantics. We are offering this course at a very good price this year (£40 to EAD Group members, £50 to Society members) as we have been able to secure some extra funding to subsidise the course. You can find out more about the course on the Society of Archivits' website or just email Jane if you would like more information. You will need to book with the Society, using the booking form at http://www.archives.org.uk/careerdevelopment.html