The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the SAA Standards Committee is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of EAD and EAC-CPF, including all schemas and related code, as well as the development of future companion standards, such as the proposed Encoded Archival Context for Functions. Its membership will be sufficient to encompass the necessary domain expertise for each standard and schema development, and will include broad international representation including SAA members and other professionals from the international archival community. The members of the committee will foster the thoughtful evolution of archival encoding standards on behalf of and in consultation with the global archival community and in close collaboration with the International Council on Archives Experts Group on Archival Description.
News & Announcements
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is seeking self-nominations from the archival community to join TS-EAS. We are seeking to fill one international and two SAA based vacancies in TS-EAS during the fall of 2024. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications.
The Functions Team of the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) has extended its call for comments on the its white paper introducing Encoded Archival Functions (EAF) until October 20. We invite comments on this draft XML standard for encoding descriptions of functions, which will be used to determine how TS-EAS should move forward in refining the current preliminary version of the XML schema and tag library.
The Functions Team for the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) will be holding two webinars to support the current Call for Comments on the Encoded Archival Functions (EAF) draft on September 25, 2024.
The Functions Subteam within the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to announce the release of a new white paper introducing EAF, a draft XML encoding standard based on the International Standard Description of Functions (ISDF) that can be incorporated into the EAS family of standards. The deadline for comments on the white paper is September 30, 2024.
Are you an archivist working in China, Japan, Korea or other countries in East Asia? Do you want to learn more about the Encoded Archival Description (EAD)? Then see the slides from our webinar held on 21 May 2024 for an introduction to EAD and how to make the best use of it.
Alongside the public call for comments on the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to three informal drop-in sessions to discuss the main features of the new version. Following a brief presentation on a selected topic, each of these drop-in sessions will open the floor for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to release Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. The deadline for comments on the change proposals is Sunday, 28 July 2024.
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) announces the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML files.
