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Update on Standard SML tools for capture and sharing of archival informtion - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF) - from a UK context (March 2011)
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EAD and EAC: Where are we now?
Bill Stockting, British Library and Co-chair of TS-EAD
UKAD Forum, TNA, 2nd March 2011
Introduction
Today simply a brief update on:
Encoded Archival Description – Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families: EAC-CPF
Encoded Archival Description: EAD
These being the XML standards for electronic capture, presentation and navigation of descriptions of archives and those creating (or otherwise acting in them) and the relationships between them. For us this means descriptions that conform respectively to:
ISAD(G)
ISAAR(CPF)
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families: EAC-CPF
EAC-CPF version 1.0 published in March 2010:
Jointly maintained by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and Staatsbibliothek Berlin
SAA has now formally adopted the standard and created the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Context (TS-EAC-CPF) of the Standards Committee
Official site Staatsbibliothek Berlin http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
EAC-CPF: Official Site
EAC-CPF: ISAAR(CPF) as XML
EAC-CPF is ISAAR(CPF) XML so captures:
Control information
Identity: authorised name and other names
Life, family or administrative histories
Relationships to other CPF entities and resources of all sorts
Examples…
SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project
SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project
National Library of Australia: TROVE
National Library of Australia: TROVE
Encoded Archival Description - EAD
Change in the governance for EAD as well:
EAD Working Group replaced by Technical Subcommittee of SAA – TS-EAD
Actual development to be undertaken by joint Schema Development Team (SDT) which also has responsibility for EAC-CPF
TS-EAD charged with producing a revision of EAD by early 2014
EAD 2002
EAD 2002 has continued the story of success for the standard:
Global implementation in repositories big and small
Particular adoption for federated services: e.g.s Archives Hub in UK, APEnet the developing European portal for archives
Translation of the tag library into many languages including Cantonese!
EAD 2002
But also many changes which make revision overdue:
Standards developments: DACS; ISAAR(CPF) v2 and EAC-CPF
Database and mark-up technologies, especially XML and related technologies
Semantic Web and linked data concepts and technologies
User contribution and creation of catalogues and resources
EAD Revision timetable
October 2010 - February 2011: Global call for comments
August 2011: Forum(s) for discussion at SAA Annual Meeting
Spring 2012: Working meeting(s) of TS-EAD, SDT etc (subject to funding)
December 2012: Release of draft schema for testing and comment
August 2013: Publish revised version at SAA Annual Meeting
EAD: A Radical Revision?
Early days but it looks like a radical revision! Hopefully EAD will:
Be less complex and easier to teach and use
Work better with databases: less formatting and mixed content (tagging within tags)?
Allow clear and useful expression of relationships with other: cultural heritage resources (not just archives) CPF entities with any role (not just creator)
Allow data from other XML namespaces such as MARC
Deal with places better and allow capture of geocoding
Conform to latest XML practice
Contact
Bill Stockting: British Library
william.stockting@bl.uk
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