Implementing EAD: The experience of the NAHSTE project

Journal of the Society of Archivists

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-214

  Higgins, Sarah ^a   Inglis, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0142104979     PISSN: 00379816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0037981032000127052     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd edn (International Council on Archives, Ottawa, 2000).
2. 〈http://www.w3.org/XML/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
3. Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivist, Encoded Archival Description, tag library, version 1.0 (The Society of American Archivists, Chicago, 1998).
4. International Council on Archives, ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (Ottawa, 1996).
5. 〈http://www.nahste.ac.uk/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
6. 〈http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/suscag/default.html〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
7. 〈http://www.gashe.archives.gla.ac.uk/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
8. Full information about the work of the World Wide Web Consortium can be found on their website at 〈http://www.w3.org/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
9. P. Kime, 'NAHSTE/GASHE XML system recommendations' (unpublished commissioned report, NAHSTE and GASHE Projects, 2000).
10. S. Higgins and M. Rankin, 'Navigational Aids for the History of Science Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE) and Gateway to Archives of Scottish Higher Education (GASHE): IT specifications' (NAHSTE and GASHE Projects, unpublished internal report, 2000).
11. Full details of the work of the EDINA National Data Centre are available at 〈http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
12. Descriptions created for the Archives Hub Project can be searched at 〈http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk〉 (accessed 3 June 2003). See A. Hill, 'Bringing archives online through the Archives Hub', JSA, vol 23 (2002), pp 239-248.
13. Descriptions created for the Archives Hub Project can be searched at 〈http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk〉 (accessed 3 June 2003). See A. Hill, 'Bringing archives online through the Archives Hub', JSA, vol 23 (2002), pp 239-248.
14. HWUA participated in the next phase of the Archives Hub Project and submitted their first descriptions in July 2001.
15. The 'Follett' Report is available at 〈http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/follett/report/〉 (accessed 5 June 2003); a review of the SHEFC projects is available at 〈http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/srch/reports/ UseofCollSurvey2.htm〉 (accessed 5 June 2003).
16. The 'Follett' Report is available at 〈http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/follett/report/〉 (accessed 5 June 2003); a review of the SHEFC projects is available at 〈http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/srch/reports/ UseofCollSurvey2.htm〉 (accessed 5 June 2003).
17. International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G), p 1.
18. International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G), p 9.
19. The six compulsory elements of ISAD(G) version 2 are reference code, title, creator, date(s), extent of the unit of description, and level of description: International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G), paragraph I.12, p 4.
20. J. Bunn, 'Guidelines for completing the top level template' (Glasgow University Archive Services, unpublished internal manual, 1999).
21. S. Higgins, 'Cataloguing instructions for ISAD(G) compliant archival descriptions fully tagged into EAD using XMetal software' (NAHSTE Project, unpublished internal manual, 2001).
22. This was superseded by EAD 2002 in December 2002. This DTD is available for downloading from the Encoded Archival Description Official Website hosted by the Library of Congress at 〈http://www. loc.gov/ead/ead2002a.html〉 (accessed 3 June 2003). EAD (version 1) can still be downloaded from 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/eadv1ann.html#whattodo〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
23. This was superseded by EAD 2002 in December 2002. This DTD is available for downloading from the Encoded Archival Description Official Website hosted by the Library of Congress at 〈http://www. loc.gov/ead/ead2002a.html〉 (accessed 3 June 2003). EAD (version 1) can still be downloaded from 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/eadv1ann.html#whattodo〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
24. P. Johnston, 'EAD encoded finding aids document creation, provisional correspondences of ISAD(G) components to EAD Version 1 element types' (Glasgow University Archive Services, unpublished internal report, 1999).
25. The EAD (version 1) to ISAD(G) crosswalk can be found in: Encoded Archival Description Working Group of the Society of American Archivists, Encoded Archival Description, application guidelines, version 1.0 (Society of American Archivists, Chicago, 1999), pp 236-237.
26. National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (1997), available at 〈http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nca/title.htm#top〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
27. The Library of Congress Cataloguing Policy and Support Office produce these. EUL subscribes to their database online. More information about LCSH is available at 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
28. UNESCO, UNESCO Thesaurus: a structured list of descriptors for indexing and retrieving literature in the fields of education, science, social and human science, culture, communication and information, 2nd edn (Unesco Publishing, Maxéville, 1995).
29. S. Higgins, 'Navigational Aids for the History of Science Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE) cataloguing instructions for ISAAR(CPF): element by element guidelines' (NAHSTE Project, unpublished internal manual, 2001).
30. A working draft Tag Library for EAC became available in March 2003 and is available at 〈http://jefferson.village,virginia.edu:8090/saxon/servlet/SaxonServlet? source=/eac/documents/tl.xml& style=/eac/shared/styles/tl.xsl&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
31. SoftQuad, who were recently taken over by Corel, originally produced this proprietary software. The software is now available in four separate components. An evaluation copy of the 'Developer' component of XMetal 4.0 can be downloaded from the internet and mailed free for 30 days from: 〈http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel/Downloads/ Details&id=1047021747834〉 (accessed 3 June 2003). NAHSTE trialled XMetal 1.0 and purchased six licences for XMetal 2.0. NAHSTE is not upgrading due to compatibility problems between this version of the software and files provided by the EAD Cookbook.
32. The EAD Cookbook, 〈http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ead/cookbookhelp.html〉 (accessed 3 June 2003), offers advice and files for the implementation of EAD using a number of types of software of which XMetal is one.
33. 〈http://www.w3c.org/Style/CSS/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
34. ESP Consulting, 'Formative evaluation of the GASHE and NAHSTE online archive resource and findings aids' (NAHSTE/GASHE Projects, unpublished report, 2002).
35. 〈http://www.perl.org/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
36. 〈http://www.xmltwig.com/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
37. 〈http://www.apache.org/httpd/〉 (accessed 3 June 2003).
38. NAHSTE, 'Academic Evaluation Group feedback initial response' (unpublished internal report, 2002).