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Special Collections Research Center Centennial Campus Documentation Project Profiles/EAC and Oral Histories
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Centennial Campus Documentation ProjectHistorical Sketches
* Encoded Archival Context (EAC) is a developing metadata standard that provides a formal method of "encoding descriptions of persons, corporate bodies, and families responsible for the creation of archival records and other resources, where such descriptions provide context for understanding and interpreting the records and resources." This proposed standard complements other standard formalisms governing name authority control for personal and corporate entities. EAC, in combination with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and other apparatuses, form a complete archival description and access system. EAD is a widely used archival standard for encoding the description of records. The authoritative version of EAC is a Beta version in the form of an XML DTD. Because it is an developing standard, it is not yet functional in all browsers. EAC records are best viewed in Internet Explorer. |





