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Re: Understanding EAD



Your other questions, including links to examples, can be answered from
LOC's EAD website: http://www.loc.gov/ead/

At 04:46 PM 2/19/02 -0600, Catherine Bruck wrote:
>There is a union catalogue.  It is NUCMC, the National Union Catalog of
>Manuscript Collections, maintained by the Library of Congress.  See
>http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
>
>Catherine Bruck
>University Archivist
>Illinois Institute of Technology
>Paul V. Galvin Library
>35 W. 33rd St.
>Chicago, IL  60616
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>bruck@iit.edu
>
>
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>Subject: Understanding EAD
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>
>>I am a LEEP student at UIUC, taking my first cataloging course.  We have
>been
>>concentrating on AACR2 and MARC up until now, but I am required to do a
>>?briefing report? on EAD (and TEI) as one of my assignments.  I am reading
>>Encoded Archival Description: Context, Theory and Case Studies as an
>>introduction to EAD.  I am unclear on a few things.  The following are the
>>first of what will probably be many questions as I progress through this
>>assignment:
>>
>>Is there a ?union catalog? in the archival world to which all of the
>>descriptions are submitted?  If so, can anyone tell me where to find it
>>(online)?  If there is no such thing, why not? Isn?t that one of the
>>benefits?having a central source that can accept the descriptions and
>direct
>>people to the location of primary sources?
>>
>>How many levels of description are there?  Where can I find the
>hierarchies?
>>There must be rules for archival description like AACR2.  Where might I
>find
>>those (what are they called)?
>>
>>Can anyone recommend an EAD finding aid online that is a good example of
>the
>>how EAD is employed?
>>
>>Perhaps I am trying to draw too many parallels from my short (4 weeks)
>>bibliographic experience. But, at the moment, that is my frame of
>reference.
>>
>>Thanks, in advance.
>>Kathleen Wallace
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