Encoded Archival Standards: Best Practices Guide

The Encoded Archival Standards: Best Practices Guide is a collaborative resource built to complement the EAS Tag Libraries for Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF) and Encoded Archival Context - Functions (EAC-F).

While the Tag Libraries define each element and attribute individually, the Best Practices Guide provides in-depth explanations of elements and attributes being used together to fulfill a variety of use cases. These are accompanied by encoded examples, to clarify the usage.

We are undergoing a major reorganization of the site during the approval process of the EAS schemas. You may access archived pages for current best practices and recommendations in GitHub: Previous version