EAD as an archival descriptive standard

American Archivist

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 344-354

  Kiesling, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 79953064741     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.60.3.r7v8555610121244     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. 'Steven L. Hensen, "The Use of Standards in the Application of the AMC Format," American Archivist 49 (Winter 1986): 31.
2. For a concise history, see the "Chronology of Key Developments in the Evolution of Standards for Archival Description" presented as part of the "Report of the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description," American Archivist 52 (Fall 1989): 441-50.
3. '"Data Elements Used in Archives, Manuscripts, and Records Repository Information Systems: A Dictionary of Standard Terminology," in Nancy Sahli, MARC for Archives and Manuscripts: The AMC Format (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1985) (now out of print).
4. "Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983); 2 second edition published by the Society of American Archivists in 1989. 'Implementation of standardization was at least partly responsible for LC's efforts to develop the Master Record file (1964-70), the National Archives' use of SPINDEX to produce an index to the Papers of the Continental Congress (early 1970s) and NHPRC's use of SPINDEX as the basis for the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (1974-78)
5. and the publication of Inventories and Registers: A Handbook of Techniques and Examples (1976) by SAA's Committee on Finding Aids.
6. Toward Descriptive Standards: Report and Recommendations of the Canadian Working Group on Archival Descriptive Standards (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1985).
7. Rules for Archival Description (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1990).
8. "Lawrence Dowler, "Introduction" to "Archival Description Standards: Establishing a Process for Their Development and Implementation: Report of the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description," American Archivist 52 (Fall 1989): 432.
9. Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook, compiled by Victoria Irons Walch (Chicago: Society of American Archivists 1994).
10. "See "Ann Arbor Accords: Principles and Criteria for an SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Finding Aids," Archival Outlook (January 1996): 12-13.
11. As of September 1997, the Working Group included Randall Barry (LC Network Development/MARC Standards Office), Jackie Dooley (UC Irvine), Ricky Erway (RLG), Michael Fox (Minnesota Historical Society), Anne Gilliland-Swetland (UCLA), Steve Hensen (Duke University), Kris Kiesling (University of Texas, chair), Eric Miller (OCLC), Chris Petter (University of Victoria, Canada), Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia), Janice Ruth (LC Manuscript Division), Rob Spindler (Arizona State University), Meg Sweet (Public Record Office, UK), Rich Szary (Yale University), Sharon Thibodeau (NARA), and Helena Zinkham (LC Prints and Photographs Division).
12. In accordance with the recommendations of the Task Force on Organizational Effectiveness and with approval of SAA Council (June 1998), the Committee on Archival Information Exchange will evolve into a technical subcommittee on descriptive standards under the new Standards Committee. It is not clear at the time of this writing whether the EAD Working Group will continue as a component of this new subcommittee, or if a separate subcommittee within the Standards Committee will be responsible for the continued revision and maintenance of EAD.
13. LC's Network Development/MARC Standards Office also maintains the documentation for the USMARC format. While LC also has considerable decision-making authority regarding the intellectual structure of MARC, that will not be the case with EAD.
14. Between 1993 and 1997, the EAD effort received funding from the Department of Education, the Commission on Preservation and Access, the Council on Library Resources, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Digital Library, the Mellon Foundation, and the Delmas Foundation.
15. ""Standards Development and Review in the Society of American Archivists: Introduction and Procedures for Review and Approval of an SAA-Developed Standard," developed by the Standards Board and approved by SAA Council, June 1995, 2.
16. "E-mail message from Kent Haworth to ARCAN-L, the Canadian archives listserv, 12 September 1997. The discussion involved the implementation of the Canadian Archival Information Network (used with permission).
17. "SAA's EAD Working Group sent out a formal request for comments via the EAD listserv (ead@loc.gov), the official venue for discussion about EAD, on 23 June 1997, and collected comments from the list until 22 August 1997.
18. For a description of the "Studies in Scarlet" project, see .
19. The UC project grant proposal is available at. http://sunsite.berkeley. edu/FindingAids/uc-ead/ grant.html
20. See the American Heritage project's website at. http://sunsite.berkeley. edu/amher/
21. The Houghton/Radcliffe guidelines are available at the Harvard Digital Finding Aid Project website, .
22. The "EAD Retrospective Conversion Guidelines" for the American Heritage Project are available at .