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Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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60/6-002 (CERN)
Description
CERN, AILIS and SNL invite you to our first Library Science Talk of 2004.
This presentation will provide a descriptive overview and history of the development of one established standard, Encoded Archival Description, and one prototype standard, Encoded Archival Context. EAD and EAC are both semantic and structural standards. EAD facilitates machine representation of hierarchical archival description and EAC machine representation of individuals, families, and corporate bodies. Neither EAD nor EAC is a descriptive content standard in itself, which is to say, neither prescribes the intellectual content of a description. In addition to being intellectual and technical entities, computer standards are also political. Each of these standards is intended to provide a means to facilitate the shared professional objectives of the international archival community. While EAD began as a unilateral initiative that gradually gathered international interest, EAC began as an international effort. Both EAD and EAC are based on an international standard, EXtensible Markup Language (XML). The presentation will include a brief description of XML, and a demonstration of several ways in which EAD and EAC descriptions can be used in communicating with both the archival community at large, and with archival users.
Please register to attend by calling Ms. Lamia Djerbi at 022 767.24.31 or contacting her at: Lamia.Djerbi@cern.ch
More information: http://librarysciencetalks04.web.cern.ch/librarysciencetalks04/
This presentation will provide a descriptive overview and history of the development of one established standard, Encoded Archival Description, and one prototype standard, Encoded Archival Context. EAD and EAC are both semantic and structural standards. EAD facilitates machine representation of hierarchical archival description and EAC machine representation of individuals, families, and corporate bodies. Neither EAD nor EAC is a descriptive content standard in itself, which is to say, neither prescribes the intellectual content of a description. In addition to being intellectual and technical entities, computer standards are also political. Each of these standards is intended to provide a means to facilitate the shared professional objectives of the international archival community. While EAD began as a unilateral initiative that gradually gathered international interest, EAC began as an international effort. Both EAD and EAC are based on an international standard, EXtensible Markup Language (XML). The presentation will include a brief description of XML, and a demonstration of several ways in which EAD and EAC descriptions can be used in communicating with both the archival community at large, and with archival users.
Please register to attend by calling Ms. Lamia Djerbi at 022 767.24.31 or contacting her at: Lamia.Djerbi@cern.ch
More information: http://librarysciencetalks04.web.cern.ch/librarysciencetalks04/