EAS-TagLibraries
About this repository
In this repository you can find the Tag Libraries for Encoded Archival Description Versions 3 and 4, Encoded Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families Versions 2 and 3, and Encoded Archival Context: Functions Version 1
These three standards are developed and maintained by the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS)
Introduction
The Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Suite includes the three standards EAD, EAC-CPF and EAC-F. They provide the different XML formats to use for giving the description of the answers to the Who, Why and What of records in XML.
- Who: EAC-CPF describes the creator
- Why: EAC-F describes the function or activity which results in a record being created
- What: EAD describes the records
The EAS Suite
- EAD
- Enoded Archival Description (EAD)
- The description of records which is the result of a function or activitiy carried out by a creator
- EAD, kindly hosted by the Library of Congress
- EAC-CPF
- Encoded Archvial Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF)
- The description of the creator which through a function or activity produces records
- EAC-CPF, kindly hosted by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- EAC-F
- Encoded Archival Context: Functions (EAC-F)
- The description of the function or activity carried out by a creator resulting in a record or records
- EAC-F version 1
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