Chapter 2 - Section 4. EAD Exercises

Tools for creating EAD-encoded Finding Aids

• *Customized Templates for EAD-Encoded Finding Aids
  http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/tools/ead_webtemplates.html
  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.
  
  
• XML schema for downloading (if you use an XML editor):
  EAD (EAD 2002):
  http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd

EAD Sites Annotated

http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/sitesann.html

Best Practices

• EAD Tag Library (with examples and crosswalks), version 2002
  http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/index.html
  
  Tag Library Conventions http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/images/figure1a.gif
  
  
• *Online Archive of California Best Practice: Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description Version 2.0
  http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/bpgead/oacbpgead_v2-0.pdf

EAD Exercises

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. * William Fonds Provenance:
   http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/2468a.html
   
   
3. Schuler's Restaurant Records,   1944-2002
   http://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.
   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 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp002010)
• to its EAD in XML (http://rs5.loc.gov/findingaids/master/pnp/eadxmlpnp/2002/pp002010.xml)

4.4 Encode with EAD tags

1. *Create an EAD record based on the "Description & Finding Aid:
   Donald W. Buchanan-James Wilson Morrice Collection" http://www.ago.net/assets/files/pdf/special_collections/SC056.pdf
   
   Note: You may print the finding aid document and write the codes next to the corresponding sections.
   
   
2. Create an EAD record for "Eva M. Noles Papers, c.1932-2004"
   http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/archives/ead/ms125/ms125.body.html Note: Include only the first two items under each Series in your Eva Noles EAD record.