On the 31st of July 2026 the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) released the updated version of the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Suite during the SAA Annual Meeting ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2026 in New Orleans. The updated EAS Suite was developed by the members of TS-EAS who participate […]
The brand-new versions of EAD 4 and EAC-CPF 3 and the new standard EAC-F (Encoded Archival Context-Functions) will be formally released by SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at a session on the 31st of July 2026 during the 90th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (https://www2.archivists.org/am2022/). This session is a […]
Dear EAD and EAC-CPF users, On behalf of SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) we are pleased to announce the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML […]
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 2.0 release ahead The brand new version EAC-CPF 2.0 will be released at the joint meeting of SAA TS-EAS and EAS Section on 3rd of August 2022. Additionally a moderated panel and discussion on encoded archival standards in the context of aggregators of archival description both within and outside of the United States will […]
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 […]
First Chinese translation of an EAS Tag Library available for EAC-CPF The EAC-CPF Tag Library of the current Schema version EAC-CPF 2010 revised 2018 is now available in Chinese language as a Website and as a PDF document, along with English, Spanish and French. TS-EAS sends its thanks to the Special Collections Librarian/Archivist Yanlin Li, […]
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 […]
Call for Comments: Revision of Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, Families The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. To ensure the greatest possible input from EAC-CPF users […]
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, […]