Archives West Utility Site
The Utility Site is your destination for getting ARKs, using the compliance checker and submitting your finding aids to the database. (You must be a Archives & Manuscripts Service participant with a login and password to access this site.)EAD Best Practices
- Oral History Encoding Guidelines( PDF) (Revised 2005-12-22)
EAD and Archives West Recordings
The recordings are available to view anytime according to your needs, or can be used in sequence to support attendance of the five-part workshop series.
- Description and Encoding
- DACS Basics
- EAD Overview
- EAD Best Practices Overview
- Minimum Framework
- Component Level Description
- Digital Object Linking
- XML View
- EAD Encoding Software
- Archives West Utility Site
Software Documentation
Software Documentation
- XMetal Documentation (Revised 2010-12)
- Oxygen Documentation (Revised 2016-03)
Helper files for use with XMetaL or Oxygen
(right click to download and save locally):
Additional Encoding Support
Institutional Examples & Tools
Central Oregon Community College's Instructions for Exporting Container Lists from Access (2008-05-22)
Steady, a tool from the University of North Carolina for converting CSV to EAD XML (2011 February 16)
Converting EAD Finding Aids into MARCXML:
- MARCedit (Terry Reese)
Other Resources:
- Encoded Archival Description home page at the Library of Congress
- EADiva, an alternative version of the EAD tag library
- Describing Archives A Content Standard (DACS), 2nd edition (2013)