Dear all,
Those on the EAD listserv will have already have seen this, but it deserves
a wider audience to remind any prospective EAD users of these very useful
'award' winning guidelines (for access to them see the link below).
Bill
RLG's EAD Group Receives Accolade from Society for American Archivists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Merrilee Proffitt, RLG Program Officer
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August 13, 2004 - At the Society for American Archivists (SAA) conference,
RLG's EAD Advisory Group received this year's C. F. W. Coker Award for its
EAD (Encoded Archival Description) guidelines. The award was presented on
August 6, 2004, at SAA's 68th annual meeting in Boston.
The Coker Award recognizes innovations in finding aids, which are extensive
descriptions of archival materials. To merit serious consideration, the
nominees must set national standards, represent a model for archival
description, or otherwise have substantial impact on descriptive practices.
The RLG Best Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description provides
practical guidance to those encoding finding aids in support of
interinstitutional and international document exchange. EAD is an
XML-compliant standard that allows finding aids to be searched and accessed
over the Web. The guidelines impose a basic degree of uniformity on the
creation of valid EAD-encoded documents, encourage the inclusion of
particular elements, and help develop a set of core data elements.
RLG's EAD guidelines have found a broad audience since their release in
August 2002. They have been adopted by various archival projects, including
the Northwest Digital Archive, the Online Archive of California, and the
North Carolina EAD Project.
"We saw it as a essential part of the basic toolkit for archivists dealing
with EAD-if you didn't have something like this, you'd have to invent it,"
says Terry Abraham, head of special collections and archives at the
University of Idaho library, and chair of the SAA committee that determined
this year's award recipient.
Accepting the award on behalf of RLG's EAD Advisory Group was program
officer Merrilee Proffitt, RLG's representative in this collaborative
effort. Chaired by Dennis Meissner of the Minnesota Historical Society, the
EAD advisory group comprises archivists and digital content managers,
including: Greg Kinney at the University of Michigan, Mary Lacy at the
Library of Congress, Naomi Nelson at Emory University, Richard Rinehart at
the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, David Ruddy at Cornell
University, Bill Stockting at the National Archives, Michael Webb at the
University of Oxford, and Timothy Young at Yale University.
The guidelines are freely available to the archival community at:
http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=450.
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