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An 8 page paper providing an overview of the development of the Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition (EAD DTD) standard and what it has meant for both archivists and researchers. Items buried in container lists are unlikely to surface in any systematic manual search, and manual searches require the physical presence of researchers. Development of the EAD DTD eliminated both of these severe restrictions. SGML encoding ensured that searches would return appropriate records, and electronic networking of the electronic records of items archived at various sites also could be searched with much greater ease than had been possible before. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSarchiveEAD.rtf
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One author notes, "Analog is a different way of knowing than digital, and each has its intrinsic virtues and limitations. Digital will not and cannot replace analog" (Smith, 1999).
What digital access to information does is to provide new horizons to researchers and students, making analog information more widely available to greater numbers of people.
Smith (1999) also notes that digital technology is invaluable in enhancing learning and extending the reach of information to much greater degrees than analog information alone
can provide. There is a qualifying factor, however, in that this digital technology only reaches this point of value when it is developed "as an addition to an already
well-stocked tool kit, rather than a replacement for all of those tools which generations before us have ingeniously crafted and passed on to us in trust" (Smith, 1999).
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides a common ground on which analog information can be digitized and thereby available to greater numbers of people and with
greater efficiency of access. The purpose here is to provide an overview of EADs development and the effects that the end result has had on making information more available
to greater numbers of people. Need for the Standard Morris (1997) recounts conditions that existed at Harvard University when it began efforts to
decentralize records of collections. As Morris (1997) explains, each department is separate and each maintains its own budget. This is a structure common in all types of organizations,
but the size and complexity of the Harvard system made that one more problematic than many others. Harvard began its records centralization projects in the mid-1980s. "There are
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