Creating hybrid descriptions of digital and analog materials within finding aids at the Alexander Architectural Archives

Project goals: 1) To create a hybrid description for analog and digital photographic materials, while preserving original order in both, for the Buildings of Texas collection and 2) To test the University of Texas Libraries’ ‘Born-Digital Archival Description Guidelines’. Project outcomes: 1) Created an EAD inventory for a pre-selected set of digital images, mapped to their analog counterparts, 2) Ingested digital images into UT DAMS to generate a link for the finding aid, 3) Wrote hybrid descriptions for series and subseries abstracts and edited relevant sections of the EAD finding aid, and 4) Provided written feedback on UT Libraries’ guidelines.