Hi Joshua,

I've done a lot more getting data out of EAD than into it, but I found
http://eadiva.com/ to be invaluable as a reference; it's much more
approachable than the documentation available through the Library of
Congress.

- Dave Mayo
Senior Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University > HUIT > LTS

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:15 PM Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are about to embark on a first-time project encoding some of our special
> collections pathfinders in EAD format. The staff involved have no
> experience with EAD and minimal experience with XML at all. Does anyone
> know of any good learning/training materials, whether book, video, online
> course, etc.?
>
> I am also interested in seeing how libraries actually display this
> information to the user. Do people just use XSLT stylesheets to transform
> the EAD documents into human-readable web pages? How/where do you index the
> EAD files?
>
> Joshua Welker
> Information Technology Librarian
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> JCKL 2260
> 660.543.8022
>