EAD to UVa Metadata Mapping

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Content Standard at: http://www.loc.gov/ead/
EAD DTD at: ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/ead/ead.dtd
UVa Fedora EAD Content Model
Example in Native Format

This mapping draws mainly on three EAD sections:

• the file description, tagged <filedesc>, containing information about the EAD file itself.
• the source description tagged <archdesc>, containing information about the original archival collection.
• the text profile, tagged <profileDesc> containing classifactory and contextual information about the finding aid, such as the standards it conforms with, the persons who created it and the languages used.

Generally, much of the information describing the archival collection can be found within the EAD <archdesc> element and is mapped to the top level <descmeta> element. In most cases, information contained within the EAD <fileDesc> is mapped to <descmeta><surrogate>. Both are considered descriptive metadata. The Administrative metadata (UVa AdminMeta) is drawn from the xml declarations at the top of the EAD file.

TEI <revisionDesc> and <encodingDesc> elements are considered administrative metadata.

UVa DescMeta-EAD map (Excel document)
UVa AdminMeta-EAD map (Excel document)