International Standards for Digital Archives - Joint Meeting -
The conference was held in Berlin from April 24-26th 2007. More than 350 participants from 35 nations discussed new and innovative ways how to use EAD, EAC and METS for the presentation of archival information and material in the Internet.
>> Conference Presentations and Papers
Abstract from the invitation to the conference:"Archives increasingly use the Internet to facilitate free, unhindered access to their holdings, independently of place and time. The use of the international standards EAD (Encoded Archival Description), EAC (Encoded Archival Context) and METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is a major precondition for the exchange of descriptive information and metadata on digitised and digitally-created archives for joint portals and gateways. For this reason, the 3rd European Conference on EAD, EAC and METS will provide general information on the standards and discuss experience with their usage, as well as various different aspects of their deployment. "
Flyer "3rd European Conference"
(348 kb)The following conferences and meetings took place at the same time:
XVth Conference
General Assembly 2007
>> Report on the General Assembly
The conference was supported by: Federal Government Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and the Media, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and German Research Foundation.
With financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, the Federal Archives were able to test the combination of EAD, EAC and METS in a pilot application for the presentation of digitised holdings on the Internet. You will find example applications incorporating integrated images in online EAD inventories, German translations of the most important documents relating to the standards and information on the project on the <daofind> Website.
