Rethinking EAD: Balancing flexibility and interoperability

New Review of Information Networking

Volumn 7, Issue , 2001, Pages 117-131

  Shaw, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 27844556706     PISSN: 13614576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614570109516972     Document Type: Article

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3. PITTI, Daniel. Encoded archival description: an introduction and overview. The Ne Review of Information Networking, 5, 1999, 61-69.
4. ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION WORKING GROUP OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS. Encoded archival description application guidelines Version 1.0. Chicago:Society of American Archivists, 1999.
5. MEISSNER, Dennis. First things first: reengineering finding aids for implementation of EAD. American Archivist, 60(Fall), 1997, 372-387.
6. Although the Digital Library Production Services has not written much about this model, John Price-Wilkin has delivered a talk The production model for networking digital resources, which outlines the approach, available at http://www.umdl.umich.edu/pubs/dsna-jpwilkin.html
7. PIEZ, Wendell. Beyond the 'descriptive vs. procedural' distinction. In: Extreme Markup Languages 2001, Montreal, 197-214.
8. I owe much of the thinking about levels of interoperability to William Arms' November 17, 2001 keynote at the Digital Library Federation.
9. Style Guidelines for many repositories are online. For examples of the diversity of these guidelines see Research Libraries Group at http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/guidelines.html. Harvard University at http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/departments/msdept/eadguidelines.html, University of Pittsburgh at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/documentation/eadguide.html, Online Archives of California at http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/oacbpg-2001.pdf and Archives Hub at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/.
10. PROM, Christopher. Extending the capabilities of the EAD cookbook. OCLC Systems & Services, 17(2), 2001, 89-95.
11. FOX, Michael J. EAD Cookbook. Available at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ead/cookbookhelp.html
12. Structural encoding may express the relationships between the components of a document.
13. Supporting access to diverse and distributed finding aids: a final report to the Digital Library Federation on the distributed finding aid server project. Available at http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dfas/dfas-final.html
14. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/
15. PITTI, Daniel. Encoded archival description: the development of an encoding standard for archival finding aids. American Archivist, 60(Summer), 1997, 268-283.
16. Indeed, many large institutions have already built many tools around their own guidelines. Their tools, however, are limited to their own use - or to those who employ their guidelines.