Encoded archival description: A structural overview

American Archivist

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 310-329

  Ruth, Janice E ^a  

^a LIBRARY OF CONGRESS   (United States)

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EID: 49749121536     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.60.3.g121j46347828122     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. "Linking the Encoded Archival Description and the TEI," CETH Newsletter 4 (Spring 1996): 4-6.
2. "Ann Arbor Accords: Principles and Criteria for an SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Finding Aids," Archival Outlook (January 1996): 12.
3. SGML expert Deborah Lapeyre, who had been retained by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program to assist with EAD development, alerted the EAD design team of the conflicting requirements in the Ann Arbor Accords at the group's 1-3 November 1995 meetings.
4. "Ann Arbor Accords," 12.
5. EAD team member Sharon Gibbs Thibodeau served on the ICA's Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards from its inception in 1990 until 1997. The author is grateful to her for providing a summary of ISAD(G) for use in this article and for conducting the EAD-ISAD(G) comparison for the team.
6. For the full text of ISAD(G), see International Council on Archives, ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, adopted by the Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 January 1993 (Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 1994) or the ICA's homepage at http://www.archives.ca/ica/.
7. See Sharon Gibbs Thibodeau, "A Mapping of EAD Tags to the Elements of Description Incorporated in the International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G)," in "Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (DTD) Applications Guidelines," by Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, edited by Thomas A. LaPorte, unpublished draft disseminated electronically, December 1996, 70-73 at. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/findaids/ead/guidelines/index.html.
8. "[Deborah Lapeyre and Janice E. Ruth, eds.], "Draft Tag Library for EAD Alpha DTDs," unpublished draft distributed in limited paper copies and disseminated electronically, February 1996;
9. Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland and Thomas A. LaPorte, eds., "Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (DTD) Beta Version, Tag Library," unpublished draft disseminated electronically, October 1996;
10. and Gilliland-Swetland and LaPorte, "Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (DTD) Applications Guidelines." The URL for both the beta tag library and applications guidelines is http://scriptorium.lib.duke. edu/nndaids/ead/guidelines/index.html. A version 1.0 tag library will be published by SAA at roughly the same time that the revised DTD is released in summer 1998.
11. Version 1.0 of the DTD is scheduled for release in summer 1998. The URL for the official EAD website maintained by Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office is http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead. The site contains information on subscribing to the EAD listserv.
12. ""Encoding Standard for Electronic Aids: A Report by the Bentley Team for Encoded Archival Description Development," 11.
13. "Janice E. Ruth, "Introductory Remarks About High-Level Elements," in [Lapeyre and Ruth, eds.], 6 "Draft Tag Library for EAD Alpha DTDs," 11-12;
14. reproduced in Gilliland-Swetland and LaPorte, eds., "Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (DTD) Beta Version, Tag Library," 6-7.
15. "The discussion in this and the following paragraphs is based on Ruth, "Introductory Remarks About High-Level Elements."