NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines EAD Version 2002


		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 Best Practice Guidelines for EAD Version 2002 (2nd edition)
Web Version Printable Version
NCEAD 2005 revised toolkit for NoteTab® software
Any questions regarding the Best Practice Guidelines or the NCEAD 2002 Toolkit should be directed to Katherine M. Wisser, NC ECHO Metadata Coordinator.

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]

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