Entrenched and opposing opinions – all with strong justificationsĮmphasis – remained within TS-EAD ultimately the co-chairs decided to honor precedentĪnd sensitivity to the impact on users and opted to remove camel case. Interoperability with EAC-CPF, but we received strong feedback from the communityĪrguing against the change. Were converted to camel case, as is the convention in EAC-CPF. In the alpha schema element and attribute names Although healthyĭifferences of opinion persisted throughout the revision process, ultimately onlyĮxecutive decision by the co-chairs. Many issues wereĬollectively came to understand better our goals and their impact. Impact on the schema, and make recommendations to the committee. Groups did additional work to better understand the request, clarify the specific As we received proposals from the community or fellow committee TS-EAD’s decision-making process focused on detailed analysis and consensus-building (DACS), and the emergence of a professional consensus that archival description existed This innovation wasĪ crucial impetus behind the swift migration of archival description to the internet,Īrchival descriptive content standards like Describing Archives: A Content Standard General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)). Of EAD made it possible to create electronic finding aids within a specifically archival Released as a DTD in 2002 and in 2007 as Relax NG and W3C schemas. A second version with greater international Developed by the EAD Working GroupĪrchivists and first published in 1998, EAD is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)įormat used by archivists around the globe.

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is the international metadata transmission standardįor hierarchical descriptions of archival records.

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