# EAD3

Source: https://xmlvalid.com/schemas/ead3

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

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

- Type: XSD
- Version: 1.1.1
- Namespace: `http://ead3.archivists.org/schema/`
- Root element: `ead`
- Publisher: Society of American Archivists (Published by the Society of American Archivists), source: https://www.loc.gov/ead/
- Validate against it: https://xmlvalid.com/validate?schema=ead3

## Notes

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