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What is Encoded Archival Context (EAC)?

April 26, 2017archival context EAC encoded

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What is Encoded Archival Context (EAC)?

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Encoded Archival Context (EAC) is a developing standard for structuring and exchanging information about creators of archival materials. In 2001 a group of archivists met in Toronto, Canada to develop a model for holding this information and to develop a strategy to test it. This model was called Encoded Archival Context (EAC) to emphasize its relationship with Encoded Archival Description (EAD). There is currently an early draft version of an EAC DTD available, which is being used by LEADERS. The final published version may take the form of a DTD or a Schema, but no time frame has been set for its release. The records that can be created using EAC work in a similar way to library authority files but with an emphasis on the provision of biographical or administrative histories for the person or organisation concerned.