n.a tool intended to facilitate archival discovery but was created using earlier, sometimes outdated, standards and formatsRoth 2001, 233Many institutions have legacy finding aids that have a variety of problems, such as being poorly structured and difficult to understand.Tansey 2011, 15Legacy finding aid migration helps ensure transparency, upholds security, promotes holdings, and increases access.Altermatt and Hilton 2012, 185The Individual Files had a legacy finding aid that was imported into the Archivists’ Toolkit. The project archivists made minor corrections and published the revised finding aid.Wisser and Dean 2013, 549The <frontmatter> element represents a formal title page and is understood to be a bridge between legacy finding aid structures and new presentations in the online environment.Baur, MacCorkle, and Singh 2016, 1Legacy finding aids in formats other than standardized EAD-XML encoding are problematic for archivists wishing to provide deep access to and interoperability of their archival description and metadata. Archivists in the last decade have written a variety of articles on streamlining workflows for converting legacy finding aids in typewritten, MS Word, PDF, HTML and even poorly executed EAD-XML formats to standardized and valid EAD-XML markup.Dean 2020, 42Much of the legacy finding aid description is written with a white supremacist point of view and this is manifested in patterns and trends that exist through the corpus of finding aid text.
