Stargazing: Locating EAD in the descriptive firmament

Journal of Internet Cataloging

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 61-74

  Fox, Michael J ^a  

^a Minnesota Historical Society   (United States)

Author keywords

APPM; Archival description; Archival descriptive standards; EAD; Encoded Archival Description; Finding aids; ISAD(G); MARC; RAD; USMARC

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956732759     PISSN: 10911367     EISSN: 15287017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J141v04n03_04     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, Rules for Archival Description (Ottawa: The Bureau, 1990).
2. International Council on Archives, Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description (Ottawa: The Commission, 1994).
3. Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts, 2nd Edition (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1989).
4. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (Frankfurt am Main: Deutche Bibliothek, 1997).
5. For a more detailed description of the nature and purposes of archival description, see Michael J. Fox and Peter L. Wilkerson, Introduction to Archival Organization and Description (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, 1998).
6. International Council on Archives, Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (Ottawa: The Secretariat of the ICA Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, 1996).
7. Chris Hurley. "The Making and Keeping of Records: (1) What are Finding Aids For, " Archives and Manuscripts 26, no. 1: 58-77.
8. Marion E. Matters, Oral History Cataloging Manual (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1995).
9. For information about XSL, see Extensible Style Language (XSL) Version 1.0, available at .
10. Wendy M. Duff and Kent M. Haworth, "Advancing Archival Description: A Model for Rationalising North American Descriptive Standards, " Archives and Manuscripts 25, no. 2 (Nov. 1997): 218-241.
11. Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1998).
12. Encoded Archival Description Application Guidelines, Version 1.0 (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1999).