Encoded archival description: An introduction and overview

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 73-82

  Pitti, Daniel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 3543027430     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/november99-pitti     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. EAD related information and files are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/ and http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead. The following publications are also available at http://www.archivists.org/catalog/index.html: Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); and Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999). The Tag Library is also available at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/tglib/tlhome.html.
2. EAD related information and files are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/ and http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead. The following publications are also available at http://www.archivists.org/catalog/index.html: Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); and Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999). The Tag Library is also available at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/tglib/tlhome.html.
3. EAD related information and files are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/ and http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead. The following publications are also available at http://www.archivists.org/catalog/index.html: Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); and Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999). The Tag Library is also available at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/tglib/tlhome.html.
4. EAD related information and files are available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/ and http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead. The following publications are also available at http://www.archivists.org/catalog/index.html: Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory, and Case studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998); and Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines: Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999). The Tag Library is also available at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ ead/tglib/tlhome.html.
5. Jewett, Charles C. Smithsonian Report on the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries and Their Publication by Means of Separate, Stereotyped Titles (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1853), 9.
6. Archival terminology is highly problematic, as the international archival community is only in the initial stages of negotiating a common vocabulary. Americans prefer the term "collection" over "fonds." For most of the rest of the world, a "collection" is an intentional gathering of materials based on one or more criteria as opposed to materials "organically generated." In American usage, the intentionally gathered materials are "artificial collections." In Britain, "archive," in the singular, is used for "fonds," though sometimes also, and more recently, "collection" is used. Archival description is used for both "organically generated" fonds and "artificial collections."
7. See http://data1.archives.ca/ica/cgi-bin/ica?04_e
8. For a more detailed description of EAD, see the Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 1.0: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/tglib/tlhome. html
9. The following analysis is loosely based on Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1994). See http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/index.html
10. For more information on both SGML and XML, see http://www.oasis-open.org/ cover/sgml-xml.html
11. See http://www.w3.org/XML/
12. Gary F. Simons. "Using Architectural Processing to Derive Small Problem-specific XML Applications from Large Widely-used SGML Applications" in Markup Technologies '98 Conference Proceedings (Chicago: Graphic Communications Association, 1998), 51-59.
13. For lists of many current EAD sites see http://jefferson.village. virginia. edu/ead/sitesann.html and http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadsites.html