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Description

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General

Tour of the Unity Theatre collection
An enjoyable way to learn about the basic constituents of archival description.

Collection Description Focus
The aim of aim of the CD Focus (based with UKOLN at the University of Bath) is to improve co-ordination of work on collection description methods, schemas and tools, with the goal of ensuring consistency and compatibility of approaches across projects, disciplines, institutions, domains and sectors. There is a helpful on-line tutorial at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/cdfocus-tutorial/.