The internationalisation of EAD (Encoded Archival Description)

Journal of the Society of Archivists

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Sweet, Meg ^a  

^a THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0035315475     PISSN: 00379816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379810120037487     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. See, for example, American Archivist, vol 60 (1997), and the EAD website . The website provides definitions of some of the technical terms used in this article, including element and tag names.
2. Joint Information Systems Committee.
3. This is compiled by Catherine Dherent (catherine.dherent@culture.gouv.fr).
4. 2nd edn (Chicago, 1989).
5. International Council on Archives, General International Standard Archival Description (1994), 2nd edn (2000).
6. This is discussed by Sarah Flynn in 'The records continuum model in context and its implications for archival practice', included in this journal issue, pp 83-84.
7. Paragraph 1.6.
8. For example, whilst ISAD(G)'s merging of dates fields may be beneficial, the new definition of 'Archival History' may pose new difficulties.
9. These are available in print (see Encoded Archival Description. Tag library, version 1.0 (Chicago, Society of American Archivists, 1998) and on-line via . The principles are based on the 'Ann Arbor Accords' drawn up in 1995 and revised in November 1997.
10. Encoded Archival Description. Application guidelines, version 1 (Chicago, Society of American Archivists, 1999). Also available on-line via the EAD website.
11. That is, material related to the records by provenance but physically separated from them.
12. See, for example, the website of the University of Sydney Library at . This includes 11 personal collections and one from a pressure group. The American Heritage Project at , whilst still principally covering personal papers, does include collections from a range of corporate bodies too.
13. Paragraph 1.3.