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Identifier ead0006
Title
 An introduction to Encoded Archival Description
Publisher Woods Hole Scientific Community
Date 2000
Category type
Article
Format text/PDF
Extent
19 p.
File size
19.37Mb
Description Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is a newlydeveloping standard that increasing numbers of archivists are using to "mark up" finding aids in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Unlike finding aids, existing on-line public access catalogs provide only summary descriptions of our collections. The finding aids that archives maintain in-house contain detailed contents lists, and provide a context and a hierarchy in which manuscript materials can be more easily identified and comprehended. By using a standard Document Type Definition (DTD), archivists are able to make finding aids available on the World Wide Web in a way that allows for complex searches both within and across repositories; the finding aids retrieved by any given search can be presented so that they are both intelligible and easily navigable...' Abstract'
Creator von Salis, Susan J.
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Web browser/Adobe Reader
Access Rights
No restriction
Subject
 Encoded Archival Description (Document type definition) -Standards.
Subject
 Archival Description
Identifier-URI
https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/2202
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