IST 628 EAD Assignment - Useful Links

The following resources are mentioned in the lecture, and will be helpful in completing your assignment.

• Examples of finding aids, more than 1000 finding aids for you to look at as examples
• EAD code for the above examples
• Validator, for checking your finding aid
• ISO 639, for three-letter language codes
• ISO 8601, for how the "normal" attribute for dates and times should be formed
• Art and Architecture thesaurus, for terms for the types of material (reports, photographs, minutes, etc)
• Library of Congress Authority files, for names of people and places, for subject headings
• Complete EAD 2002 tag library, lists all EAD elements alphabetically
• EADiva, an interactive version of the EAD 2002 tag library that lists elements in structural order - a very useful site to explore (it includes information about EAD Version 3, but we're using EAD 2002 for this assignment)

EAD

Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) home page - https://www2.archivists.org/groups/encoded-archival-standards-section

EADiva - For EAD 2 (and EAD 3, if you're interested)

EAD 3 Webinar - Implementing EAD3: Search and Exploration

Crosswalks - EAD / MARC crosswalk and DACS to EAD to MARC crosswalk, showing what element to use for which DACS content

Complete EAD 2002 tag library, lists all EAD elements alphabetically

Research Libraries Group EAD Best Practices

OCLC paper on barriers to EAD adoption - Over, Under, Around and Through (

Content and Data Standards

ISO 3166-1 (country codes) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes, click "Country codes" radio button, and search by name

ISO 639.2 (language codes) - http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

ISO 8601 (normalized dates) - Summary of ISO 8601 by Markus Kuhn; you can also read ISO's brief explanation or (if you're a glutton for punishment) the full standard

LC subject headings (persname, corpname, subject, geogname, etc) - http://authorities.loc.gov

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (genreform) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html

Examples of EAD in action

Syracuse University Special Collections - http://findingaids.syr.edu

Online Archive of California - http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

Joyner Library, East Carolina State - http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/