This workshop focuses on component-level description, the portion of a finding aid that offers the rich detail of archival description.
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EAD Workshop 2: Collection-Level Description
This workshop covers the basic structure of EAD and leads participants through creating a collection-level description.
EAD Workshop 1: DACS Basics
This workshop focuses on the building blocks of any standards-compliant archival description: forming according to Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition.
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Training
This five-part training series offers an interactive overview of all that you need to know to create or convert finding aids so that they can go into the database: DACS basics, EAD basics, our best practices, encoding tools choices, workflows, and the many other tools that the Archives & Manuscripts Service offers.
Archives West and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Documentation
Documentation and trainings for Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
EAD Encoding Template
XML template for encoding in EAD2002 according to the most current version of the Alliance’s EAD Best Practices
Collections with an EAD in Archives West and an OAI set in the Digital Collections Harvester
This documentation addresses complex situations arising from submitting finding aids to both Archives West and to the Digital Collections Harvester.
Archival Collection Discovery & Management Standing Group
The Archives West Standing Group studies and envisions changes to the Archives West finding aid database.
Unique & Local Content (ULC)
The Unique & Local Content Program provides for development, stewardship and dissemination of unique and local content at Alliance institutions.