Using the open archives initiative protocols with EAD

Christopher J. Prom; Thomas G. Habing

doi:10.1145/544220.544255

Using the open archives initiative protocols with EAD

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The Open Archives Initiative Protocols present a promising opportunity to make metadata about archives, manuscript collections, and cultural heritage resources easier to locate and search. However, several technical barriers must be overcome before useful OAI records can be produced from the disparate metadata formats used to describe these resources. This paper examines Encoded Archival Description (EAD) as a test case of the issues to be addressed in transforming cultural heritage metadata to OAI. While EAD and OAI may appear to be incompatible, a mapping would be both useful and technically feasible. The authors suggest that it will be necessary to create numerous OAI records from one EAD file. In addition, the findings indicate that further standardization of EAD markup practices would enhance interoperability.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	171-180
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/544220.544255
State	Published - 2002
Event	Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries - Portland, OR, United States Duration: Jul 14 2002 → Jul 18 2002

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Other	Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland, OR
Period	7/14/02 → 7/18/02

Keywords

Encoded archival description
Interoperability
Open archives initiative

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Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences

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