1. Third Times the Charm:Thoughts on an EAD Revision ________________________ Michael Rush Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University MARAC Fall 2009 Meeting October 30, 2009

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• ISAD (G) (1994)

• EAD 1.0 DTD (1998)

• ISAD (G), 2nd ed. (1999)

• EAD 2002 DTD

• EAD 2002 Schema (2006)

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• ISAAR (CPF) (1996, 2004)

• • EAC-CPF (2009)

• ISDF (2008)

• • EAC-F (20??)

• ISDIAH (2008)

• • EAC-IAH (?) (20??)

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• Archivists Toolkit

• Archon

• ICA-AtoM

5. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Photo bycatdonmit .Licensed under Creative Commons. 6. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Photo bylu_lu . Licensed under Creative Commons. 7. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Reduce/Eliminate Mixed Content EAD:

Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America in 2008>.

EAC-CPF:

Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America in 2008.

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Allow Namespace Interoperability ( the Archival Turducken )

Embed other

XML schemas:

EAC-CPF

MODS?

Dublin Core?

PREMIS?

Replace

with ?

Photo byPhil Romans . Licensed under Creative Commons. 9. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Improve Date Handling EAD Examples: November 10, 1969 1914-1918 EAC-CPF Examples: November 10, 196919141918 10. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009

Eliminate non-descriptive elements and attributes

• @label

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Simplify

• Settle on or c01/c02/c03 etc.

• Eliminate and ?
  • • Eliminate recursive elements
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  • Camel Case
  13. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Strict Vs.Loose Photo byJabony . Licensed by Creative Commons. 14. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009
  • Make Containers Explicit
  • • 1
  • • Peanut Butter
  • • 1
  • • Jelly
  15. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 123 Peanut ButterPeanut Butter 16. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009
  • Clarify
  • • Bust of Van Gogh
  • • 1 linear foot (1 box), 12 x 6 x 18,
  • • Marble, damage to ear
  • OR
  • • Bust of Van Gogh
  • • 1 linear foot (1 box),
  • • 12 x 6 x 18,
  • • Marble, damage to ear
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  • • Bust of Van Gogh
  • • 1
  • • 1 box
  • • 12
  • • 6
  • • 18
  • • Marble, damage to ear
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  • • Daniel Pitti
  • • • Rare Book School Class Designing Archival Description Systems
  • • EAC Working Group
  • • EAD Working Group
  • • Denizens of the EAD listserv
  • • Conversations with many archivists
  19. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009 Comments?Want to help? Photo byZervas . Licensed under Creative Commons. 20. ______________________________________ 30 Oct 2009
  • • Mike Rush
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  • • http://twitter.com/mike_rush