Reference Links for Introduction to the Malta Archives

Libraries and archives:

• The Malta Study Center, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library: http://www.hmml.org/studycenters/malta
• National Library of Malta :
  • Main page: http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt/nlm/index.htm
  • Catalogues: http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt/nlm/ser_catalogues.htm
  • Regulations: http://www.education.gov.mt/edu/nationl_library_reg.pdf
  • Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt/nlm/nlm_faq.htm#4
• Cathedral Museum, Mdina: http://www.maltachurch.org.mt/Misc/Misc-Cathedral.htm
• National Archives of Malta (website http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt/nam/ser_catalogues.htm)
• Law court records at the Banca Giuratale (website http://www.libraries-archives.gov.mt/nam/ser_law_courts.htm)
• The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov
• The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/
• The Vatican Library and Archives: http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/

Archival Science

• Theo Thomassen, "The Development of Archival Science and its European Dimension" http://www.archiefschool.nl/docs/thomdeve.pdf
• The Archives Resource Center (established by the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators) http://www.coshrc.org/arc/index.htm
  • Web-based training for archivists: http://www.coshrc.org/arc/webeducation/index.htm
• Society for American Archivists: http://www.archivists.org/
  • Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook. http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/index.html
• Historical Manuscripts Commission (UK) http://www.hmc.gov.uk/index.html
  • International Council of Archives, Report of the Subcommittee on Finding Aids http://www.hmc.gov.uk/icacds/eng/findingaids.htm
• Archives Association of British Columbia/British Columbia Archival Information Network: http://aabc.bc.ca/
  • A Manual for Small Archives:  http://aabc.bc.ca/aabc/msa/0_table_of_contents.htm

• Smithsonian Institution guidelines for record management, http://www.si.edu/archives/archives/2rmhome.html

• Mount Holyoke College, Definitions of archival terms, http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/ref/def.shtml

• International Council on Archives: http://www.ica.org/

  • General International Standard Archival Description: http://www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=1
• Research Libraries Group: http://www.rlg.org/
  • EAD Best Practices Guidelines: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=450
• Society of Archivists (UK): http://www.archives.org.uk/
• Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana: http://www.anai.org/homepage.asp
  • "Guidelines for the Preparation and Presentation of Finding Aids" (Italian translation): http://www.anai.org/politica/strumenti/Guidelines.pdf

Diplomatics

• The DEEDS project http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/research/deeds_project.html (Documents of Essex England Data Set).  Includes Hospitaller charters from the English priory.

Codicology and paleography

• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web. http://www.earlham.edu/%7Eseidti/iam/interp_mss.html
• An introduction to English medieval and early-modern paleography. http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
• Central European University Medieval Manuscript Manual,  http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html (Versions available in English, Italian, Hungarian, and Russian)

Language links

• Page of Latin language links: http://www.ut.ee/klassik/web/latlang.html
• Altavista Babel Fish : http://world.altavista.com/

How do to archival research

• How to do archival research (United Kingdom) http://www.arts-scheme.co.uk/index.htm
• Finding aids (Adelaide, Australia) : http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/archives/pdf/Finding%20Aids.pdf

On-line texts

• The Malta Historical Society, and Melita Historica http://www.geocities.com/melitahistorica/index.html

Digital initiatives

• Commission on Preservation and Access, "Digitization as a Means of Preservation?" http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/digpres/digpres.html
• The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov
  • Guidelines for Digital Reformatting: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/digital/dp-refguidelines.html
  • "Principles and Specifications for Preservation Digital Reformating." http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presprinciple.html
• TEI-MS -- TEI markup for medieval manuscripts: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/tei-ms/index.html
• The Library of Congress, Official Encoded Archival Description (EAD) site: http://www.loc.gov/ead/
• Malvine, a search engine for post-medieval manuscripts: http://www.malvine.org/