Encoded Archival Description
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Encoded Archival Description is the current standard for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Library of Congress in partnership with the Society of American Archivists.
The development of EAD began in 1993, at the University of California, Berkeley. The goal of their project was to create standard by which museums, libraries, and manuscript repositories could list their holdings in a manner that would be machine-readable and, therefore, easy to search. The EAD tags would be used both to have every archival entry be formatted in the same manner and to allow researchers to more easily search for similar elements across the institutions holdings. EAD 1.0 used SGML as the original markup tool; however, just before EAD 1.0 was released, the working group members realized that if they were to make EAD compliant with XML as well, then EAD would become easier to read online.
External links
- [Official EAD Version 2002 Web Site]
- [Society of American Archivists]
- [RLG Best Practices Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description]
- [EADToolsSurvey.pdf EAD Tools Survey]
- [RLG EAD Report Card]
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