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XSD Society of American Archivists · 1.1.1

EAD3

Encoded Archival Description

Archival finding aids: the description of a collection, its series and its files.

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About

EAD3 encodes the hierarchical description of archival collections. ArchivesSpace, AtoM and national archives portals import and export it.

Good to know

  • The older EAD 2002 uses another namespace and schema and is not checked here.
  • The example is by xmlvalid.com.

Files

1 file · 103.1 KB

Example document

finding-aid.xml · 1.7 KB · valid against this schema

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In CI and from code

The same schema by its name, ead3, through the API.

npx @xmlvalid/cli validate "**/*.xml" --schema ead3
- uses: xmlvalid/validate-action@v1
  with:
    files: "**/*.xml"
    schema: ead3
    api-key: ${{ secrets.XMLVALID_API_KEY }}
curl https://xmlvalid.com/api/v1/validations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $XMLVALID_API_KEY" \
  -F document={{ $schema->example ?? 'document.xml' }} -F schema=ead3

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