EAD Report Card
This Web application is the first automated program for
checking the quality of your EAD encoding. Created by popular demand,
the tool supplements RLG's award-winning RLG
Best Practice Guidelines
for Encoded Archival Description (pdf). Simply upload one of
your
finding aids for a quick checkup. The program will flag any
discrepancies and cite the relevant guideline, so you can fix what you
have wrong on the spot.
- The online version of the RLG EAD Report Card is currently unavailable. We hope to restore this functionality in the near future.
- You may, however, download the standalone version (running the
application locally allows for faster testing, and the open-source code
can be modified to reflect local best practices):
Desktop version:
eaddesktop1.0.zip
| Readme
Server version: eadserver1.0.zip
| Readme
Who can benefit? Archivists
and anyone who is creating EAD finding aids, by ensuring conformance
with community-wide guidelines.
When does it come in handy? Whether
or not you've already been working with the Best Practice Guidelines,
this tool will help quality control and productivity. It accepts XML
files encoded in EAD DTD version 2002. Use it with:
- finding aids you're currently encoding to the
guidelines, to
see how they stack up.
- finding aids encoded prior to the publication of the
guidelines.
- documents converted for you by a vendor.
- finding aids produced using a database or other tools.
- work done by student assistants.
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