Tools for creating EAD-Encoded Finding Aids

**EAD Web Templates

• Online forms developed by the CDL (California Digital Library) for generating collection- through series-/subseries-level collection guides that are compliant with OAC (The Online Archive of California) specifications.
  * * https://help.oac.cdlib.org/support/solutions/articles/9000107790-using-ead-web-templates-to-create-collection-guides
  

EAD 2002

• EAD 2002 version: XML schema for downloading (if you use an XML editor):
  http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
  
  

EAD3

• EAD3 (Version 1.1.0)
  • Schema is available in two syntaxes: Relax NG Schema (RNG) and W3C Schema (XSD). https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead3schema.html
    

EAD File Samples

* * EAD 2002 Samples https://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/appendix_c.html

* EAD3 and EAD 2002 -- Records in LOC FInding Aids collection https://findingaids.loc.gov/index.html

Encoded examples

* EAD2002 http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/appendix_c.html

* EAD3 and EAD 2002 -- Records in LOC FInding Aids collection http://findingaids.loc.gov/index.html

• (Find any finding aid record, right-mouse-click, "View Page Source" in order to see the colored XML codes.)
  

Best Practices

• EAD Tag Library (with examples and crosswalks)
  • EAD 2002 Tag Library
    http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/index.html
    
    Tag Library Conventions http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/images/figure1a.gif
    
    
  • * EAD 3 Tag Library https://www.loc.gov/ead/EAD3taglib/EAD3.html
    
    
• **Online Archive of California (OAC) Best Practice Guidelines for EAD (using the EAD 2002)
  https://help.oac.cdlib.org/support/solutions/articles/9000103649-oac-best-practice-guidelines-for-ead
  (PDF available for downloading: https://help.oac.cdlib.org/helpdesk/attachments/9018408267).
  
  
• **Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) Tag LibraryVersion 2010 Revised
  https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schema/taglibrary/cpfTagLibrary2019_EN.html
  
  

EAD Exercises (for EAD 2002 schema)

4.1 Analyze Finding Aid examples:

1. Library of Congress Finding Aids
   http://findingaids.loc.gov/
   (Browse by subject and select a finding aid,
   e.g., Browse--> By subjects-->Women--Education--United States--1880-1940 --> Visual materials from the Booker T. Washington papers -->)
   Finding Aid Permalink: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp002010
   
   
2. Cornelius Rea Agnew Papers 1857-1888
   **https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/agnew272
   
   
3. Schuler's Restaurant Records,   1944-2002
   *https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead&idno=umich-bhl-05110
   (or use browse option to see other finding aids)

4.2 Analyze EAD examples:

1. For the above #1 item, locate the EAD XML record.
   Choose: Print/Download --> Full Text, XML format --> Use Firefox browser to view the XML file.
   Or directly go to:
   http://rs5.loc.gov/findingaids/master/pnp/eadxmlpnp/2002/pp002010.xml
   

• Consult EAD Library Tag: http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/index.html
  ( Tag name, Element name, and Attributes)
• Use color marks to indicate the hierarchies of the record.
  
  

2. Or, check the encoded examples: http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/appendix_c.html

4.3 Identify EAD elements for the existing Finding Aids

Compare public finding aids to EAD Records:

• a Finding aid as displayed on the web (*https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp002010)
  
• to its EAD in XML (http://rs5.loc.gov/findingaids/master/pnp/eadxmlpnp/2002/pp002010.xml|| **View page source: view-source:http://rs5.loc.gov/findingaids/master/pnp/eadxmlpnp/2002/pp002010.xml)

4.4 Analyze records encode with EAD tags

1. * Study an EAD Finding Aid record for " Film stills of productions featuring actress May Robson"
   http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp002004
   Note: Check each option, including the "Print/Download" Study the XML records in both the EAD 2002 and EAD 3. Click the record --> [open on a broaser] right-mouse-click, "View Page Source" in order to see the colored XML codes.
   
   
   
2. Create an EAD record based on the "Description & Finding Aid:
   Donald W. Buchanan-James Wilson Morrice Collection"
   *https://ago.ca/sites/default/files/SC056.pdf
   
   Note: You may print the finding aid document and write the codes next to the corresponding sections.
   
   

EAC-CPF
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families

• *Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) Tag Library
  Version 2010 (initial release)
  http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/eac/cpf/tagLibrary/cpfTagLibrary.html
• *XML schemas
  https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schemata-and-tag-library/
  
• *Diagram
  http://culturalis.org/eac-cpf/
• *Examples https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/examples-for-the-eac-cpf-schema-2010/
  
  • (Find any finding aid record, right-mouse-click, "View Page Source" in order to see the colored XML codes.)
• **Tag LibraryVersion 2010 Revised
  https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/schema/taglibrary/cpfTagLibrary2019_EN.html