Following is a brief list of suggested changes that were sent to the list
during the formal comment period this summer, which will be discussed at
the EAD Working Group meeting next week. The suggestions are grouped
according to the EAD hierarchy, not necessarily in the order in which
they'll be discussed. We tried very hard to keep close track of the
suggestions, but if we missed something, please let us know.
EAD Working Group
Meeting Agenda
Washington, DC
October 31-November 2, 1997
1. <eadid>
require subelements or attributes for country or repository codes
2. <archdesc>
make <ead> available
3. Issues relating to <did>
purpose of <did>
inclusion of <scopecontent> or <abstract>
unbundle at the <c> level
relationship between <unitloc> and <unitid> and possible addition
of new <container> element
4. <did> elements
<physdesc>
add new <measurements> element
make <p> available
<physfacet>
make <...name> elements, <date>, and <occupation> available
add attributes "facettype," "type," "source"
<dimensions>
add attribute "type" or "unit"
<unitloc>
add page and folio to the list of "containertype" values
<unitid>
make required
5. <admininfo>
add new elements <accruals> and <orgarrang>
make <...name> elements, <date>, and <occupation> available in
<acqinfo>
add "type" or "label" attribute to <altformavail>
6. <scopecontent>
make <list> available
7. <controlaccess>
make <indexentry>, <origination>, and <head> available
allow elements within <controlaccess> to nest
add CDWA to source lists
8. <odd>
make <separatedmaterial> available, instead of adding <add> to
<archdesc>
9. <dsc> and <c>
add new <levelinfo> element
add "style" attribute
10. <c>
make <unittitle> required
11. <add>
expand availability to <archdesc> and <c>
add new elements <associatedmaterial> and <findingaid>
make <associatedmaterial> and <relatedmaterial> available within
each other and recursive
12. <indexentry>
add new elements <level1>, <level2>, <level3>
make <note> available
13. <bibref>
make <...name> elements available
make <date> available outside <imprint>
14. <emph>
make recursive
15. Add "a.xPointer" attribute to all external pointers
Additional suggestions included:
XML and ISAD(G) conformance
attribute set for Z39.50
new notations for HTML and EMAIL in eadnotat.ent
new entities for extensions
support for all the basic HTML and SGML tags, such as <b>, <br>, etc.
allow foreign archival terms in attributes, source lists, etc.
The Working Group will also discuss the documentation, including the tag
library and application guidelines. And who knows what else might come up?
Kris Kiesling
Chair, SAA Committee on Archival Information Exchange
Chair, CAIE EAD Working Group
Head, Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713-7219
voice: 512-471-9113
fax: 512.471.9646
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