Just the Essentials Just the Essentials

 EAD Schema Version 2002 (Current supported version)

Release date: 2007

 

xml-ead2002 EAD 2002 DTD and Official Documentation (Current supported version)

Release date: Dec. 2002

 

xml-ead1.0 EAD 1.0 DTD and Official Documentation (Superceded. For reference purposes only)

Release date: 1998

 

 ISO Standards used in EAD

EAD suggests the use of certain ISO standards in the construction of certain element values. These related standards can be found here: isostandards.html

 

EAD ListservEAD Listserv

Your first port of call in getting your EAD-related question answered by the community is the EAD Listserv. List details, instructions on how to join and/or unsubscribe, and a link to the list archives, are available at http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadlist.html.

 

Best Practice Guidelines

Over the ten years that EAD has been implemented by many hundreds of archival repositories worldwide, communities of archivists have determined best practice guidelines for the use of EAD tags in marking up their finding aids. Below is a list of best practice guidelines available on the web.

NOTE: The EAD Roundtable makes no recommendation as to which guidelines, if any, to follow. This listing is neither exhaustive nor comprehensive; to help make it more complete please submit links to best practice guidelines to stephen.yearl@yale.edu.