Course Fees: Advance / Regular
SAA Members: $325 / $385
Employees of SAA Member Institutions: $365 / $425
Nonmembers: $425 / $485
Course Description (2 days, 1.5 CEUs, 10 ARCs)
Here’s your chance to receive the instruction and hands-on practice you need to deliver your finding aids on the Web in a standardized format. Get acquainted with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and practice with authoring software to create an XML version of a finding aid. This 2-day workshop covers the most up-to-date version of EAD!
Upon completion of this workshop you'll be able to:
- Identify the fundamentals of Extensible Markup Language (XML);
- Recognize the structure of EAD (the SAA-endorsed standard for archival finding aids);
- Mark up a complete finding aid;
- Explore implementation strategies; and
- Practice encoding your own finding aid using EAD.
Who should attend? Archivists and others who are charged with exploring and/or implementing EAD at their institutions or who want to enhance their rsums.
Knowledge assumed for this course: Arrangement and description practice and familiarity with finding aids.
Attendance is limited to 25.
