EAD is a standard that archivists have been developing to improve description of and access to their holdings. The development of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) began in 1990s. SGML is the encoded language of EAD, and the content and structure was specified by SGML DTD. The development and implement of EAD is very rapid and extensive. As a standard of archival description, EAD has great potentialities. This paper explores origin and structure of EAD, examines the current state of development and implementation for EAD, addresses positive and negative evaluations of EAD.
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