Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

Dept. Code: 
SLIS
Course Credits: 
1.5
Offered Online: 
No

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.