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Indexing and authority files
EAC
Encoded Archival Context (EAC) is an ongoing initiative within the international archival community to design and implement a prototype standard based on XML for encoding descriptions of record creators. The proposed metadata standard is intended to comply with ISAAR (CPF) and complement other standards governing name authority control for personal and corporate entities. The primary developers of this prototype standard are members of the international archival community.
The XML DTD and the Tag Library documentation for EAC was developed in co-operation and with support from the LEAF project (Linking and Exploring Authority Files), which ran from March 2001 to March 2004. The EAC website has further information, an EAC schema and example EAC documents, which are displayed firstly in XML and secondly as they might be viewed by the public.
