OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description [PDF]
(OAC BPG EAD)
Version 2.0
February 2005
Reviewed and Updated Annually
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. OAC Encoding Schemes
- 3. General Encoding Guidelines
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- 3.1. Conventions Used and Nomenclature
- 3.2. Order of Elements
- 3.3. Recursion and Repeatability of Elements
- 3.4. XML Encoding
- 3.5. Dates
- 3.6. Internal and External Linking
- 3.7. Component Tags
- 3.8. Entities
- 3.9. Character Encoding
- 3.10. Headings, Labels, Punctuation, and White Space
- 3.11. Special Formatting
- 3.12. Publication and Display
- 3.13. File Naming
- 4. Guideline Tables
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- 4.1. <ead>, <eadheader>, and <frontmatter>
- 4.2. <archdesc>
- 4.3. <dsc>
- 4.4. Linking to Digital Objects
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- 4.4.1. Terminology
- 4.4.2. Context
- 4.4.3. <dao> Digital Archival Object vs. <daogrp> Digital Archival Object Group
- 4.4.4. Use of the ROLE Attribute
- 4.4.5. Linking from Finding Aids to Digital Objects: Collection or Major Subdivision vs. <c0x> Component Levels
- 4.4.6. Linking from Digital Objects to Finding Aids
- 4.4.7. Implementing Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Digital Objects
- 4.5. Linking from Finding Aids to CDL-Hosted METS Digital Objects/Locally-Hosted Digital Objects
- 4.6. Linking from Finding Aids to Legacy CDL-Hosted METS Digital Objects (Metadata Derived From EAD)
- Appendix A. Example Encoded Finding Aids
- Appendix B. Formal Public Identifiers for Finding Aids
- James Eason
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library - Genie Guerard
UC Los Angeles, Young Research Library, Dept. of Special Collections - Salvador Guerena
UC Santa Barbara, Davison Library, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives - Jane Rosario
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library - Adrian Turner
California Digital Library - Bradley D. Westbrook (Chair)
UC San Diego, Geisel Library
I would like to extend my gratitude to Mary Elings, Chair of the OAC Working Group (OAC WG) Digital Object Standards Subcommittee; Lynn Holdzkom, member of SAA's Technical Subcommittee for Descriptive Standards; William Landis, Chair of the OAC WG Access Subcommittee; Nancy Kushigian, California Digital Library; Dennis Meissner, Minnesota Historical Society; Gabriela Montoya, UC San Diego; Brian Tingle, California Digital Library; Adrian Turner, California Digital Library; and to all members of the OAC WG Metadata Standards Subcommittee -- to all these persons for diligently reading drafts of the guidelines and, through their generous and astute comments, helping to bring these guidelines to their current form.
Chair, OAC Working Group Metadata Standards Subcommittee
UC San Diego
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