Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

In this course students learn about the development of the standard, the language powering it (XML), implementation, research, and future trends.

During the course of the workshop, students will progressively encode a finding aid for weekly assignments and a final project grade.

In addition to the main encoding assignments there will be one group presentation of about 15-20 minutes in length on an EAD consortium group assigned by the instructors. Individual students will be asked to prepare questions in advance for each group presentation.