Webinar: Introducing the new version of the Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) standard The Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting a webinar in November 2022 to introduce the new version of […]

EAC-CPF is an adopted standard of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and maintained by the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS). Since summer 2017, the TS-EAS revised the current standard version according to the procedures for review and approval of an SAA-Developed Standard. After four years of developing, discussing, meeting and gathering community […]

Webinar: Introducing revisions to the Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) standard The Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting an April webinar to introduce proposed changes to the EAC-CPF standard. Encoded Archival […]

After nearly three years of review, the EAC-CPF revision process will soon reach a major milestone. In the coming weeks, the review team will release a call for comments with a proposal for a revised Schema and a Tag Library draft. Work on the revision was completed through a full year of monthly virtual meetings, […]

The TS-EAS is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of the revision. Revised schema files and an updated tag library can be found on the EAC-CPF site at: https://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/. In 2017 the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists agreed to undertake a revision of the […]