HTML & Word finding aids → ArchivesSpace
Congregational Library & Archives
The Congregational Library & Archives in Boston — a specialised religious repository with fewer than three full-time staff and no in-house IT — phased out static HTML and Microsoft Word finding aids by adopting a Lyrasis-hosted ArchivesSpace, backed by a grant from the H.W. Wilson Foundation. The staged rollout migrated legacy collection-level descriptions from the library's OPAC, with intensive cleanup for DACS compliance, and trained graduate interns to encode newly processed collections directly in the web interface — sidestepping manual XML entirely. It is an encouraging example for tiny, specialised religious archives that modern, standards-based description is achievable without technical staff, given turnkey hosting.
Original source
Using EAD3 — Congregational Library & Archives case study (C. Prochilo)
Society of American Archivists
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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