Get Involved
Channels
| Mailing list Sign up to receive periodic e-mail updates on our mailing list. |
| Slack Join the conversation on our #public channel at nafan.slack.com. Submit a request to be added to the channel. New to Slack? Check out this quick start guide. |
Conferences and information sessions
Past sessions
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) Project, (Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research)
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| OCLC Works in Progress Webinar. "Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis" (Chela Scott Weber, Lesley A. Langa, Merrilee Proffitt, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Research) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Research Forum. "End-User Research Findings from the Building a National Finding Aid Network Project" (Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| OCLC Works in Progress Webinar. "Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—End user survey and interviews" (Lesley A. Langa and Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Joint EAS Section and TS-EAS Annual Meeting. NAFAN project update (Adrian Turner, California Digital Library and and Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| OCLC Works in Progress Webinar. "Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Introduction and project recommendations." (Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lesley A. Langa, Bruce Washburn, Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| Joint US-Canada AtoM Users Group. NAFAN project update (Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) |
| Digital Library Forum 2022. "Imagining a Shared Future for Archival Discovery: findings from the Building a National Archival Finding Aid Network project" (Lesley A. Langa and Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
NAFAN Information Session
This information session provides an early review of some of the key project deliverables, including:
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| Society of American Archivists, Annual Meeting. “Project Update: Building a National Finding Aid Network" (Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research; Rachael Hu and Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Research Forum. "The Broadest Possible Range of Users: Learning About Users of Archival Aggregations" (Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| American Libraries Association, Annual Meeting. “News You Can Use: OCLC Research update: Resources to meet changing community needs” (Lesley A. Langa and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Research) |
| American Libraries Association, Library Research Roundtable Panel, Annual Meeting. “Understanding Factors that Shape Archivists’ Needs for a New Finding Aid Platform” (Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lesley A. Langa, Merrilee Proffitt and Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) |
| Association of College & Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division (RBMS), Virtual Conference. "Imagining a Shared Future for Archival Discovery: research findings and paths forward from the Building a National Archival Finding Aid Network project." (Itza Carbajal, Lesley A. Langa, Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research; Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
| Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners symposium, Expand Digital Access Today: New Pathways for Sharing Your Collections. "Wide discovery and access for archives through a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN)." (Rachael Hu and Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
| OCLC Works in Progress Webinar. "Research to advance the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project." (Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lesley A. Langa, Bruce Washburn, and Chela Scott Weber, OCLC Research) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Research Forum. "Observing changes in EAD Tag Usage to Support Discovery, 2013-2021" (Merrilee Proffitt and Bruce Washburn, OCLC Research) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Annual Meeting. “Project Update: Building a National Finding Aid Network,” pre-recorded session (Lesley A. Langa, OCLC Research; Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
| Society of American Archivists, Research Forum. "Who Searches Archives Online? Results From a User Survey from 12 State and Regional Archival Finding Aid Aggregators (NAFAN)" (Lesley A. Langa, OCLC Research) | |
| Council of State Archivists (CoSA) webinar: "Building a National Finding Aid Network" project update (Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
| Society of California Archivists, Annual General Meeting. OAC/Calisphere Contributor Meeting + "Building a National Finding Aid Network": project update (Christine Kim and Adrian Turner, California Digital Library) | |
NAFAN Information Session. "Building a National Finding Aid Network" overview and update
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| New England Archivists, Virtual Meeting. National Archival Finding Aid Network (Karen Eberhart, Brown University and Kate McNally, Brandeis University) |
Code
| GitHub Interact with source code we develop for prototype systems, at https://github.com/nafanproject. |
