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this specification document is based on the
EAD stands for Encoded Archival Description, and is a non-proprietary de facto standard for the encoding of finding aids for use in a networked (online) environment. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections of archival materials. EAD allows the standardization of collection information in finding aids within and across repositories.
The specification of EAD with TEI ODD is a part of a real strategy of defining specific customisation of EAD that could be used at various stages of the process of integrating heterogeneous sources.
This methodology is based on the specification and customisation method inspired from the long lasting experience of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) community. In the TEI framework, one has the possibility of model specific subset or extensions of the TEI guidelines while maintaining both the technical (XML schemas) and editorial (documentation) content within a single framework.
This work has lead us quite far in anticipating that the method we have developed may be of a wider interest within similar environments, but also, as we imagine it, for the future maintenance of the EAD standard. Finally this work can be seen as part of the wider endeavour of European research infrastructures in the humanities such as CLARIN and DARIAH to provide support for researchers to integrate the use of standards in their scholarly practices. This is the reason why the general workflow studied here has been introduced as a use case in the umbrella infrastructure project Parthenos which aims, among other things, at disseminating information and resources about methodological and technical standards in the humanities.
We used ODD to encode completely the EAD standard, as well as the guidelines provided by the Library of Congress.
The EAD ODD is a XML-TEI document made up of three main parts. The first one is,
like any other TEI document, the
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