Time to settle down? Ead encoding principles in the access to archives programme (A2A) and the research libraries group’s best practice guidelines

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 7-24

  Stockting, Bill ^a  

^a THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A2A; Access to archives programme; Archival description standards; Description; EAD; Encoded Archival Description; End users; Research libraries group; RLG EAD Best Practice Guidelines; The National Archives; TNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881621898     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v02n03_02     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See the announcement on the official EAD Web site at http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead2002a.html.
2. ISAD(G) is available from the International Council on Archives. See the ICA Web site at http://www.ica.org/biblio/isad_g_2e.pdf.
3. For RLG’S Archival Resources, see the introduction at http://www.rlg.org/arr/index.html.
4. For Access to Archives Programme (A2A), see the database at http://www.a2a.org.uk/.
5. RLG’s EAD Best Practice Guidelines can be found at http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/eadguides.html.
6. Sarah J. A. Flynn, Matthew Hillyard and Bill Stockting, “A2A: the Development of a Strand in the National Archives Network,” Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2001), 177-191.
7. The National Archives Online Catalogue (PROCAT) can be found at http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/.
8. Michael Fox, “Stargazing: Locating EAD in the Descriptive Firmament,” Journal of Internet Cataloguing, Vol. 4, Nos. 3/4 (2001), 61-74.
9. National Council on Archives (NCA), Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, which can be found online at http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nca/title.htm.
10. UNESCO, UNSCO Thesaurus: A Structured List of the Descriptors for Indexing and Retrieving Literature in the Fields ofEducation, Science, Social and Human Science, Culture, Communication and Information (Paris, 1995). This thesaurus is now being used as the basis for the development of the United Kingdom Archival Thesaurus (UKAT), information about which can be found at http://www.ukat.org.uk/.
11. These guidelines can be found from links at http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/a2a/standards.htm.
12. A list of the members of the EAD Advisory Group can be found at http://www.rlg.org/primary/eadac.html.
13. The guidelines are listed with inline links at http://www.rlg.org/primary/eadac_practices.html.
14. Hannah C. Frost, “Guidelines Counseling: A comparative Analysis and Evaluation of EAD Implementation Guidelines,” Journal of Archival Organization, Vol. 1, No. 3, 73-86.
15. RLG Encoded Archival Description: Recommended Application Guidelines, 1998, can be found at http://www.rlg.org/rlgead/guidelines.html.
16. Meg Sweet, “The Internationalisation of EAD (Encoded Archival Description),” Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2001), 33-38 for discussion of issues relating to internationalization of EAD.
17. William E. Landis, “Nuts and Bolts: Implementing Descriptive Standards to Enable Virtual Collections,” Journal of Archival Organization, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2002). See also the statement of the principles for the CUSTARD project at http://www.archivists.org/news/custardproject.asp.
18. William E. Landis, ISAD(G), 1.12.
19. Ian Anderson, “Information Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age: Historians in the United Kingdom,” a PowerPoint presentation of initial results from the Primary History project at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/reasearch/historians/primarily_history.htm.
20. Christopher J. Prom and Thomas G. Habing, “Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocols with EAD,” JCDL (2002) available at http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/publications/jcdl2002/p14-prom.pdf.