Encoded Archival Context Activities
Objective: The Encoded
Archival Context (EAC) initiative aimed to define a standard for
recording
and exchanging information about the individuals, families, and
organizations that create archival records.
Overview: Biographical
information, agency histories, and other contextual information are
critical for understanding archival resources—the
manuscripts, letters, memoranda, reports and more that form the
"records" which archives collect, organize, and make accessible.
RLG coordinated the development of EAC starting in
2000. With support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, RLG
hosted two key meetings in 2001, contributed to the ongoing
progress of the standard, and sponsored Daniel Pitti of the
University of Virginia in developing an XML Document Type Definition
(DTD)
for applying EAC encoding to online information about the creators of
archival materials.
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