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Tools
Best Practices:
NWDA Best Practices for Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (Version 3, 2007-02-22)
NWDA Oral History Encoding Guidelines (PDF) (Revised 2005-12-22)
NWDA Headings and Labels for Stylesheet Display
Browsing Terms:
Browsing Terms for NWDA Finding Aids (revised 2006-01-30)
Xmetal Help and Templates:
Installing XMetal and Required EAD Files (Revised 2006)
Using XMetal to Encode Finding Aids
Customizing the NWDA Encoding Template
NWDA XML Template: Downloadable version (Revised 2006-05-05) (right click link and choose "save as...")
NWAPI XML Template: Downloadable version (Revised 2006-05-05) (right click and choose "save as...")
NWDA Resources:
The NWDA Utility Site is your destination for getting ARKs, using the compliance checker and submitting your finding aids to the database. You must be a NWDA member with a login and password to access this site.
We're always working to improve the NWDA site for our researchers. See what's up next at the NWDA Development Site.
Converting EAD Finding Aids into MARCXML:
Mark Carlson’s tool at the University of Washington
Terry Reese’s tool at Oregon State University
The stylesheet needed for this program is at
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/xslt/EADlitetoMARC21slimXML.xsl
Other Resources:
Thinking about EAD in the future, but not ready to do it yet? Use the Northwest Archives Processing Initiative (NWAPI) finding aid standard (Version 2, February 2006) to create finding aids that are fully compliant with DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) and can easily be encoded later.
ReplaceEM is a freeware search and replace tool for Windows that performs global edits. It's handy for making changes to batches of EAD files.
www.orbit.org/replace
Last update: 3 December, 2007 by Jodi Allison-Bunnell.