3. TIMELINE TO DATE
Comments Funding Revision Forum
• 2010-10 to 2011- • Spring 2011 • SAA 2011
02
Conference calls TS-EAD Share Essential
• Spring/Summer Working Meeting Documentation
2012 • March 2012 • Winter 2012
5. SUPPORT
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University
7. POINTS OF EMPHASIS
Achieving greater conceptual and semantic
consistency in the use of EAD.
Exploring mechanisms whereby EAD-
encoded information might more
seamlessly and effectively connect
with, exchange, or incorporate data
maintained according to other protocols.
8. POINTS OF EMPHASIS
Improving the functionality of EAD for
representing descriptive information
created in international and particularly in
multilingual environments.
Being mindful that a new version will affect
current users.
10. COMMUNITY COMMENTS
Non-Descriptive
Schema and documentation
General nature and purpose
Relationships to related resources and entities
EAD Header
11. COMMUNITY COMMENTS
Descriptive
Hierarchy elements
Wrapper elements
Controlled terms
Digital Archival Objects
Date encoding
Languages and scripts
Other elements
13. GENERAL PROCEDURES
Elimination of elements deprecated in
EAD2002
<add>
<admininfo>
<dentry>
<drow>
<organization>
<tspec>
@langmaterial, @legalstatus, @otherlegalstatus
Deprecation as a blanket rule for new
removals
14. 2011 QUALIFIERS
Preliminary
Provisional
Contingent
Possible
Potential
17. DISENTANGLE DESCRIPTIVE
ELEMENTS
Remove <arrangement> from <scopecontent>
Remove <acqinfo> from <custodhist>
Remove <legalstatus> from <accessrestrict>
[and promote it to a sibling]
Remove <unitdate> from <unittitle>
Eliminate recursion
bioghist/bioghist
controlaccess/controlaccess
Provide alternative using <div>
18. REDUCE SEMANTIC
OVERLOAD
<note>
8 distinct uses in EAD:
<notestmt>
<titlepage> or <div> [in <frontmatter>
<did>
<did> sibling
Within <did> siblings [as a block element]
Recursively within <note>
Within block elements like <p> [as mixed content]
<namegrp>
19. UPDATE ACCESS TERMS
Split mixed content and block uses of access
term elements into separate elements
Separate semantics of the following:
<p>Includes correspondence from
<persname>John Lennon.</persname></p>
<controlaccess>
<persname>Lennon, John.</persname>
</controlaccess>
21. ALIGN WITH XHTML
Minor tweaks to <table>
Minor tweaks to <list>
Remove <table>, <list>, and <chronlist> from
within <p>
Limit <blockquote> to a block element, add
<quote> for inline use.
22. SIMPLIFY LINKS
Consolidate <extref>, <extptr>, <ref>, and
<ptr> to just <ref>
Remove linking attributes from assorted
elements, e.g. <title>
Deprecate extended links
<daogrp>
<linkgrp>
Remove XLINK namespace, but implement
linking attributes isomorphic with XLINK
23. SUPPORT MULTIPLE
LANGUAGES
Add language code and script code attributes
to each non-empty element
24. REDUCE MIXED CONTENT
Reduce mixed content by more carefully
considering what elements are appropriate
within a given element
Examples:
Limit available children of <container> to <emph>
and <ref>
Limit available children of <langmaterial> to
<languagef>, <emph>, and <ref>
26. RECONCILIATION WITH EAC-
CPF
Replace <eadheader> with <control>
Keeping <filedesc> but replacing the rest
Add <relations> at all levels *
Improve data model for dates *
Improve <chronlist> *
* Pending discussion
36. FORMS AVAILABLE
<did>
<unittitle>Photograph</unittitle>
<formsavailable>
<container type=“Box”>1</container>
<dao href=“url”/>
</formsavailable>
</did>
37. CONTAINER ID
<container type=“Box” containerid=“1234”>
1
</container>
represents the same container as
<container type=“Box” containerid=“1234”>
1
</container>
38. CONTAINER ID
<container type=“Box” containerid=“1234”>
1
</container>
represents a different container from
<container type=“Box” containerid=“5678”>
1
</container>
39. DID NOTE
<didnote>
Contain PCDATA, mixed content elements
(<emph>, <ref>, etc.)
Will not contain <p>, <table>, <list>
<did>
<didnote @label=“Note”>Mean Mr. Mustard
sleeps in the park.</didnote>
</did>
42. REJECTED PROPOSALS
Eliminate <did>
Eliminate <head>
Eliminate <abstract>
Eliminate numbered components
Make <archdesc> a wrapper tag for
components alone
Make @level required for all components
44. RELATED TOOLS
Migration stylesheet(s)
External validation tools to
Validate ISO code lists, etc.
Establishing subset profiles
Encoding manipulation tools
Stylesheet
to change between numbered and
unnumbered components
48. REVISED SCHEMA
Currently pre-Alpha
Hacked version of existing schema
Comprehensive re-write pending
http://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-
Revision/blob/master/ead_revised.rng
49. MIGRATION STYLESHEET
Draft conversion of existing EAD 2002
instances to new EAD
Intended to be developed alonside
schema, but lagging behind
http://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-
Revision/blob/master/ead2002toEADx.xsl
50. ISSUE TRACKER
Three tags for issues
“Bugs”
(TS-EAD)“Feature Requests”
“Comments”
http://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-
Revision/issues
52. REMAINING TIMELINE
Progress Report Alpha Schema Schema
• 2012 EAD Roundtable Release Development
• Fall 2012 Team Meeting
• Comments begin • October 2012
Final comment Beta Schema
period ends Release
• 15 February 2013 • 15 January 2013
• Final comments begin
53. REMAINING TIMELINE
Tag Library Finalize schema
Editorial Meeting requirements and
• March 2013 tag library
• 1 April 2013
Schema and tag
library release
• 1 July 2013
55. FURTHER INFORMATION
SAA Standards Portal
http://www2.archivists.org/standards
Schema Development Team Github
Repository
http://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-Revision
Library of Congress EAD List
EAD Roundtable List
56. CONTACT
Michael Rush
michael.rush@yale.edu
twitter.com/mike_rush