Introduction to TARO: Encoding and Submitting Finding Aids
Date: Monday, February 12, 2018
Time: 10 am - 5 pm (full day) or 1 - 5 pm (half day)
Cost: $85 (full day - price includes box lunch)/$50 (half-day)
Location: Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Trainers: Amy Bowman and Amanda Focke

Description: This workshop will teach the hands-on basic skills needed to participate in TARO, including basic XML familiarity and editing, EAD familiarity, how to upload files to TARO, and troubleshooting. The full day is recommended for those with little or no TARO, EAD, or XML experience. The half-day (afternoon only) is recommended as a refresher for those who might feel rusty and/or have work environment changes which have changed their approach to TARO (such as using collection management software now instead of hand-encoding XML).

The workshop is open to anyone but is focused on TARO guidelines and workflows. This is not an intensive EAD course, which is offered as a two-day workshop by SAA (http://www2.archivists.org/profeducation/course-catalog/encoded-archival-description-ead3) or an intensive XML class, but will show the basics to get you started and share resources to help you once you return to your workplace.

Register Here:

https://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/event-2734149