The Virginia Heritage Project Best-Practice Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description Version (VHP/BPG) are intended to represent an “acceptable range of uniform practice” in the application of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) version 1.0 to finding aids from disparate institutions for contribution to a union database. Like its predecessor, the Encoded Archival Description Retrospective Conversion Guidelines, the VHP/BPG drew on the consensus of several consortia: the Online Archive of California, the Virtual Library of Virginia's Virginia Heritage, the Online Archive of New Mexico, and the North Carolina Encoded Archival Description Project. Each consortium has as its objective the development of a union database of finding aids contributed by participating repositories.
