Does EAD play well with other metadata standards? Searching and retrieving EAD using the OAI protocols

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 51-72

  Prom, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ead; Encoded archival description; Interoperability; Metadata harvesting; Metadata standards; Oai; Open archives initiative; University of illinois open archives initiative metadata harvesting project

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023705462     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v01n03_04     Document Type: Article

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