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	Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and Overview
		The logical components of archival description and their relations to one another need to be accurately identified in a machine-readable form to support sophisticated indexing, navigation, and display that provide thorough and accurate access to, and description and control of, archival materials.
		Archival description is thus collection- or fonds-level, and involves a detailed, hierarchical analysis of the whole and its sub-components, with an emphasis on provenance and the organization, arrangement, and content of the material.
		Archival description also can be brief -- especially if the unit of description is one item or the description constitutes only a summary -- but it also can be a thousand or more pages in length.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/november99/11pitti.html (3061 words)

	Cover Pages: Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
		Archival finding aids are "descriptive bibliography or metadata tools which take the form of inventories, registers, indexes, guides, and similar resources created by museums, libraries, repositories, and other kinds of archives." The Version 2002 EAD DTD "is designed to function as both an SGML and XML DTD.
		Archival finding aids are "descriptive bibliography" or "metadata" tools which take the form of inventories, registers, indexes, guides, and similar resources created by museums, libraries, repositories, and other kinds of archives.
		EAD 1.0 credits: Prepared and Maintained by the Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists and the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress.
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/ead.html (2848 words)

	Encoded Archival Description on the Internet (Book Review April 2003)
		EAD is the first tool to preserve the multilevel and hierarchical description manifest in finding aids by providing structures in which to describe entire record collections and increasingly smaller subcomponents thereof such as series, subseries, folders, and even items.
		In her article tracing the development and structure of EAD, Janice Ruth tells the story of EAD's predecessors, its creation as the FindAid DTD at Berkeley and the path it took in becoming a standard maintained by the Society of American Archivists.
		The history of EAD and the discussion of the theoretical principles underlying its development and implementation should be useful for many other encoding and standards development efforts.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/april03/04bookreview.html (1411 words)

	Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Project
		The documents with the descriptive data were then copied to a separate folder and renamed to have a.txt extension, though they were still in Rich Text Format.
		The EAD coding for those was rather minimal since EAD does not yet support all of the note fields we currently use.
		The hope with EAD is to make the XML copy the master copy and eliminate any other "master" or duplicate copy which may exist.
	historyresearch.utah.gov /inventories/ead.htm (1465 words)

	Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
		The EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using Extensible Markup Language (XML).
		EAD DTD Official Documentation for Superseded Version 1.0 (1998)
		These tools will be kept up to date with the current versions of the software with which they are intended to be used.
	www.loc.gov /ead (147 words)

	A review of metadata: a survey of current resource description formats - EAD
		EAD provides a structure for describing archive and library finding aids and is primarily intended for inventories and registers.
		The EAD provides an apparatus for full, hierarchical description and is designed for use by those with a knowledge of collections and archival practice.
		The Beta version of EAD and an electronic version of the guidelines are scheduled to appear in late Summer or Autumn of 1996.
	www.ukoln.ac.uk /metadata/desire/overview/rev_06.htm (806 words)

	OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description
		These guidelines are based on the EAD Version 2002 DTD for archival finding aids maintained by the Society of American Archivists (SAA).
		The OAC BPG EAD supplement the EAD Tag Library (EAD TL) and the EAD Application Guidelines (EADAG), both published by the SAA, by defining a core set of practices for encoding a subset of EAD elements required or recommended for use in finding aids contributed to the OAC.
		Present all archival description in a hierarchical whole-to-part relationship that proceeds from general description of the collection to more specific descriptions of parts of the collection.
	www.cdlib.org /inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgead/bpgead_1-2.html (1084 words)

	EAD – Encoded Archival Description: Metadata Reference Guide: MIT Libraries
		EAD enables standardized exchange of descriptive data contained in specific types of archival finding aids known either as archival inventories* or manuscript registers§.
		The information about the archival material was to include a multilevel description of a unit of records and additional information that, although not directly related to the described documents, might be of use to researchers.
		In principle, encoded finding aids consist of three parts, the first describing the information about the finding aid itself (), the second describing the prefatory matter useful for the display or publication of the finding aid (), and the third one containing the description of the archival records or manuscript papers ().
	libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/metadata/standards/ead.html (1714 words)

	ASIST AM 04 - Encoded Archival Description (EAD): Adoption and Implementation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides archival researchers with more in-depth content-related and contextual information than was previously available anywhere but in the physical repository.
		This paper examined EAD adoption in the U.S. and reports on a survey of 399 archives and manuscript repositories that participated in EAD educational workshops between 1993 — 2002.
		Among the factors found to be related to EAD adoption were prior adoption of the MARC format for the description of archival or manuscript materials and professional staff size.
	www.asis.org /Conferences/AM04/abstracts/73.html (204 words)

	EAD at UC BERKELEY
		Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is the emerging standard for archival finding aids which is supported by the Society of American Archivists and the Library of Congress.
		While the finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections and they have been indispensable to scholars and researcher.
		Berkeley's SunSITE is the location for a growing collection of finding aids for the archives and special collections of the UC System and for a number of other institutions which have collaborated with Berkeley in its efforts to assist the national community develop this important standard.
	sunsite3.berkeley.edu /ead (476 words)

	RLG's Encoded Archival Description Activities
		EAD is an international standard that archives and libraries can use to XML-encode the information in their finding aids for greater online access.
		EAD is also the basis of the RLG Archival Resources database, which includes close to 50,000 finding aids together with briefer collections cataloging.
		For information about RLG's EAD advisory group, see Projects: Working Groups: Encoded Archival Description Advisory Group.
	www.rlg.org /en/page.php?Page_ID=411 (144 words)

	A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections - National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
		Archival collections are generally described by curators according to established principles of archival description.
		Archival finding aids describe archival collections in an hierarchical way, starting with high-level description of the collection as a whole, and moving through established series and subseries, down to the contents of individual boxes and folders.
		Organizations should consider the granularity of description, that is, whether to create descriptive records at the collection level, at the item level, or both, in light of the desired depth and scope of access to the materials.
	www.niso.org /framework/Framework2.html (9690 words)

	EAD (Encoded Archival Description) at UW Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As useful as archival finding aids are, their availability has been limited: Some finding aids have been published or presented on the Web as HTML documents, but most are available only in the repositories that generated them.
		Encoded Archival Description is a non-proprietary standard for delineating the structural parts of a finding aid with defined SGML or XML markup tags that are embedded throughout the document.
		Multi-level Description: EAD was designed to accommodate the hierarchical structure that archivists impose on large collections of unpublished material.
	www.lib.washington.edu /Msd/mig/eaduse.html (515 words)

	Cover Pages: US Library of Congress Releases Encoded Archival Description DTD Version 2002.
		The Encoded Archival Description is an implementation of ISO 8879, SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)/XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
		Much of the need to deprecate elements at all was due to a desire to keep the EAD DTD compatible with provisions of the General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
		See: "Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and Overview." By Daniel V. Pitti (Project Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia).
	xml.coverpages.org /ni2002-12-20-a.html (1022 words)

	EAD Finding Aids at Library of Congress
		Archival institutions such as the Library of Congress routinely create detailed inventories, registers, indexes, and guides that describe the collections of primary source material under their control.
		These descriptive access tools, commonly called archival finding aids, provide more complete information about a collection than you will find in the Library of Congress’ online catalogs.
		These guidelines are used in conjunction with the EAD Tag Library (version 2002) and EAD Application Guidelines, both published by the Society of American Archivists and the Library of Congress.
	www.loc.gov /rr/ead/eadhome.html (616 words)

XML: Encoded Archival Description DTD (Document Type Definition) Version 2002

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