Resources and Documentation
The TARO Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Best Practice Guidelines, Version 4.0 (EAD BPG) for contributing EAD finding aids to the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) database. This pdf document describes EAD encoding guidelines for TARO compliance.
TARO Files for TARO finding aid creation
The download includes:
- TARO Best Practices Guidelines
- ead.xsd — rules file for EAD, so that an XML editor can check the XML for validity
- xlink.xsd — a buddy file for ead.xsd, relating to how links (URLs) are handled in the XML
- schema2.xsl — a TARO stylesheet to be used in the XML editor for HTML preview purposes
- TARO2_EADSchemaTemplate.xml — a blank template of EAD XML (useful for filling in to create new finding aids)
- TARO2_EADSchemaTemplate.html — html version of the .xml template
- TARO2_EADExample_1.xml — an example complete EAD XML file
- TARO2_EADExample_2.xml — an example complete EAD XML file
- TARO2_EADExample_3.xml — an example complete EAD XML file
TARO 2 Guide to Migration (Updated August 2021)
Guide identifying new required EAD elements, attributes, and encoding analog as well as common issues noticed during the compliance remediation process.
Short video tutorials on a number of topics related to the creation, compliance, and uploading of TARO finding aids
*Videos regarding uploading to TARO will be obsolete with the launch of TARO 2 in Fall 2021
EAD Editors
Oxygen (https://www.oxygenxml.com/)
Sublime (shareware)
(https://www.sublimetext.com/)
Other free options:
Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.html)
Microsoft XML Notepad (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7973)
TextEdit (https://softfamous.com/textedit/)
