Past Perfect

Brooklyn Historical Society

This manual discusses uploading files and creating metadata in PastPerfect with emphasis on item-level description. The manual details general use of PastPerfect, the Dublin Core metadata elements, authority headings, and linking PastPerfect records with Archivists’ Toolkit and other online access portals. Screenshots included.

Photographic Cataloging Manual: Digitizing Standards and Cataloging Procedures

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories

This manual guides the user through the optimal processes for describing archival collections in Past Perfect based on two central tenets of archival cataloging theory: hierarchical description and metadata standards.

"PastPerfect-ion": Optimizing PastPerfect for Archival Description