EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <eadheader> EAD Header

Description:

The <eadheader> is required, because information that was often unrecorded for a local paper finding aid is essential in a machine-readable environment. Four subelements are available, which must occour in the following order: <eadid> (required), <filedesc> (required), <profiledesc> (optional), and <revisiondesc> (optional). These elements and their subelements provide: a unique identification code for the finding aid; bibliographic information, such as the author and title of the finding aid; information about the encoding of the finding aid; and statements about significant revisions.

The FINDAIDSTATUS attribute can be used to indicate how complete or polished the information in the finding aid is: "unverified-partial-draft," "unverified-full-draft," "edited-partial-draft," or "edited-full-draft."

The <eadheader> can be used to display a simple electronic title page. Alternatively, the <eadheader> can be blocked from display by setting the AUDIENCE attribute to "internal" and using the <frontmatter> <titlepage> elements to create a title page that is independent of the <eadheader>'s prescribed sequence of information.

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Example:

<ead audience="external" relatedencoding="MARC">
<eadheader audience="internal" findaidstatus="edited-full-draft" langencoding="ISO 639-2">
<eadid type="SGML Catalog">PUBLIC "-//University of Ishtaba::Manuscript Library//TEXT
(US::UI-M::MSS 0001::Papers of Edgar Holden)" "mss0001.sgm"</eadid>
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>
<titleproper encodinganalog="245$a" pubstatus="pub">The Edgar Holden Papers,
<date type="span">1978-1993</date></titleproper>
<subtitle encodinganalog="245$b">An inventory of his Papers at the University
of Ishtaba</subtitle>
<author>Finding aid prepared by Avery Thimble</author>
<sponsor>Processing sponsored by grant funding from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission, grant number 94-0123</sponsor></titlestmt>
<editionstmt>
<edition encodinganalog="250$a">2nd ed.</edition>
<p>Second edition reflects substantial additions to the collection in 1994.</p>
</editionstmt>
<publicationstmt>
<publisher>University of Ishtaba, Manuscript Library</publisher>
<date type="publication">1995</date></publicationstmt>
<seriesstmt>
<titleproper encodinganalog="440$a" pubstatus="pub">Archival Inventories and
Guides of the World; </titleproper>
<num encodinganalog="440$v">no. 148</num></seriesstmt>
</filedesc>
<profiledesc>
<creation>Machine-readable finding aid and skeletal markup derived via a macro
from WordPerfect file; markup checked and completed by Sarah Accords. <date
normal="19950423">April 23,1995.</date></creation>
<langusage>
Finding aid written in <language>English</language>
</langusage></profiledesc>
<revisiondesc>
<change><date normal="19970505">May 5, 1997</date>
<item>This electronic finding aid was updated to current markup
standards by Sarah Accords using a perl script. Updates included:
eadheader, eadid, arrangement of did elements and their labels.</item></change>
</revisiondesc>
</eadheader>
[other possible elements and text ...]
</ead>