Michael,

This is good news about the EAD Cookbook.

At the successful seminar held by the (prospective) EAD/Data Exchange Group
of the UK and Ireland Society of Archivists this Wednesday my introduction
to the Cookbook generated spontaneous applause as I 'magically' created an
HTML finding aid. The credit for this is of course yours: the Cookbook works
and is a boon to us all.

Yours,

Bill Stockting
Senior Editor
Access to Archives - A2A
at the Public Record Office
Information and Records Department.
Tel: 0181-876-3444, ext 2126
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> From:         Timothy Young[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Encoded Archival Description List
> Sent:         22 August 2000 17:17
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      EAD HELP PAGES UPDATED (with added content!)
>
> I am pleased to announce an important upgrade to the EAD HELP PAGES
> http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/
>
> The site now offers extended help for EAD implementation
> in the form of an XML FAQ written by David Ruddy of Cornell University
> Library
> and the EAD COOKBOOK from Michael J. Fox of the Minnesota Historical
> Society.
>
> The XML in EAD page (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/xml.html)
> covers many of the frequently asked questions about how XML differs
> from SGML and what steps should be taken to easily work with the
> XML version of the EAD.DTD
>
> The EAD COOKBOOK
> (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/cookbookhelp.html)
> is a guide to implementing EAD, using an example finding aid,
> complete with several style sheets and auxiliary files to take advantage
> of some of the most used XML software.
> The EAD COOKBOOK is intended to be downloaded
> in its entirety, so there are two versions available: one in Word 95
> format,
> another as a PDF file - for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
>
> I hope these new sections will be as helpful for users of this list
> as they already have been for me.
>
> Many thanks go to David and Michael -
> as well as SAA EAD Round Table chair and vice-chair
> Beth Bensman and Naomi Nelson - and the tech. crew at the University
> of Virginia for all the work needed behind the scenes to
> make the EAD HELP PAGES migrate to a new server
> (but with no change of address!)
>
>
> Timothy Young
> Ex Officio - EAD RoundTable, Society of American Archivists
> Archivist
> Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
> Yale University
> New Haven, CT  06520
> (203) 432-8131
>


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