Normalising Archival Description: An Introduction To EAD

Author: Alejandro Delgado Gómez

This is a book whose main purpose is to attempt a concise presentation of the EAD DTD standard for Spanish-speaking archivists.
Relying much on the initial structure of EAD documentation ¿ considered from a threefold historical, administrative and technical standpoint ¿ a number of practical instances taken from actual, daily practice is thus featured in order to facilitate general understanding of the standard.
A broad introduction to the use of EAD ¿ in terms of both its theory and practice ¿ is likewise offered.
On the other hand, he EAD standard is discussed within the context of marking languages and metadata.
It has to be finally mentioned that the book also features a series of addenda where somehow more specific points are duly explored; the latter range from the main differences between EAD 1 and 2 versions, as well as full EAD encoding, to patterns of record migration and the conversion of EAD to XSD or RTF formats.

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