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general information 
- Background on EAD development
- Design principles for enhancement of the EAD
- Working Group Members
- Other Sites related to EAD
version
2002 - current
- EAD 2002 Schema New!
- EAD DTD, version 2002
- EAD Tag Library (with examples and crosswalks), version 2002
version
1.0 (1998) - superseded documentation
tools and helper files
A variety of tools and helper files for a number of different XML authoring
and editing applications is available at the SAA EAD Roundtable's Web site. These
tools will be kept up to date with the current versions of the software with
which they are intended to be used: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/
The EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) is a standard for encoding archival finding aids using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC) in partnership with the Society of American Archivists.