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<p><a class="inactive larger lowercase left" href="home_research.html">research &amp; development</a></p>
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SNAC is demonstrating the feasibility of separating the description of persons, families,
and organizations&mdash;including their socio-historical contexts&mdash;from the description of the
historical resources that are the primary evidence of their lives and work. A key objective
is to provide researchers with convenient, integrated access to historical collections held
by multiple private and public archives and libraries around the world while also setting
the stage for a cooperative program for maintaining information about the people documented
in the collections.</p>
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<p><a class="inactive larger lowercase right" href="home_cooperative.html">cooperative program</a></p>
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SNAC is pleased to announce the launch of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative,
hosted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Cooperative
will enable archivists, librarians, and scholars to jointly maintain information about the people
documented in archival collections. It will also improve the economy and quality of archival
processing and description, and address the challenge of discovering, locating, and using
distributed historical records.</p>
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<h3>Addressing a Longstanding Research Challenge</h3>
<p>SNAC is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using
distributed historical records. Scholars use these records as primary evidence for
understanding the lives and work of historical persons and the events in which they
participated. These records are held in archives and manuscript libraries, large and
small, around the world. Scholars may need to search scores of different archives one
by one, following clues, hunches, and leads to find the records relevant to their topic.
Furthermore, descriptive practices may differ from one archive or library to another.
The research is time consuming and inefficient: clues and leads may be easily overlooked
and important resources undiscovered. </p>

<p>The data needed to address this research challenge already exists in the guides,
catalogs, and finding aids that archivists and librarians create to document and provide
access to the archival resourcess. It is buried in isolated guides and finding aids that
are stored in different, isolated systems. </p>

<h3>Establishing a Framework: Phase 1</h3>
<p>In 2010, with funding from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, SNAC began to
explore the feasibility of extracting the data in the record descriptions that describes
the people who created or are documented in the records. This data was then assembled into
a collection of descriptions of individuals, families, and organizations that are
interrelated with one another and with the resources that document their lives. The
collection of records was then used to build a prototype research tool that 1) integrates
and simplifies access to the dispersed resources and 2) provides unprecedented access to
the biographical-historical contexts of the people documented in the resources, including
the social-professional-intellectual networks within which they lived.</p>

<p>It quickly became apparent to the SNAC team that, while it was quite feasible to extract
the data and use it to build a research tool, computational techniques alone would not
fully realize the potential power of the assembled data to both transform research and
improve the economy and effectiveness of archival descriptive practices. To fully realize
these complementary objectives, it would be necessary to develop an ongoing, sustainable
international cooperative that would enable archivists, librarians, scholars, and, eventually,
&ldquo;citizen archivists&rdquo; to maintain and add biographical-historical data and to extend the scope
of the people and historical resources covered.</p>

<h3>Establishing a Framework: Phase 2</h3>
<p>With additional funding from the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services and the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SNAC continues its research and development work, increasing the
quantity and diversity of the sources data and improving the technical methods. The team is in
the planning phase of transforming this research into an international cooperative hosted by
the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.</p>

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