North Carolina Encoded Archival Description North Carolina Encoded Archival Description (NCEAD) is a working group within NC ECHO that examines the implementation of EAD for North Carolina institutions and provides best practice guidelines, tools, assistance, and other resources. The overall goal of NCEAD is to encourage standardization throughout encoded archival finding aids in order to enable inter-institutional searching of cultural heritage materials. Membership is open to any interested North Carolina
cultural institution.
North Carolina Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Project Archives
  The Archives provides links to documentation from the inception of the NCEAD project. Many of the tools once available are no longer offered (for instance, SGML and Version 1.0 templates), but documentation regarding the application of early versions of EAD are available for review.
Original Project Web Site
NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines EAD 2002 (first edition - superceded by 2nd edition available at EAD 2002).
PDF version
Version 1.0
Only available in html
SGML Guidelines Homepage
Guidelines available in Rich Text Format or HTML

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North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, http://www.ncecho.org, is the World Wide Web doorway to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites.

The NC ECHO project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

This innovative and collaborative project seeks to build a statewide framework for digitization in order to facilitate deep, wide, and comprehensive access to the holdings of North Carolina's cultural institutions. NC ECHO is co-sponsored by Duke University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina.

Questions and comments may be directed to the NC ECHO staff. [mail to: ncecho@ncmail.net]

This page last updated October 2, 2007 (peh)
URL: http://www.ncecho.org/ncead/archives/archives_home.htm
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