EAD Editor

Access

The Archives Hub provides an EAD Editor for creating and editing EAD descriptions. Use the EAD Editor to create, edit and submit collection-level or multi-level descriptions to the Hub team, who will process them and put them onto the Hub.

The Editor can be found at 

http://editor.archiveshub.ac.uk/edit/

A login is required for access. Please email us to request an administrator login for your institution. Administrators can create additional usernames.

Browser Requirements

If you use the Internet Explorer browser, you need to be using version 7 or later. Internet Explorer 6 is not suitable. You can also use Firefox, Chrome or Safari browsers. The Chrome browser does not support native XML, so you would need to use the 'view source' option to see the EAD markup.

The EAD Editor uses AJAX to create a dynamic experience, and therefore you will need Javascript enabled on your browser (the option to enable Javascript is usually found in the Tools menu of your browser).

Please Note: There is an issue with displaying special characters in some browsers. If your special characters are displaying incorrectly, or you find rogue characters in your descriptions, you will need to change your character encoding to Unicode (UTF-8). This option can be in different places in various browsers:

IE: open the 'page' menu, choose 'encoding', and select 'Unicode (UTF-8)'.

Firefox: 'view' menu, choose 'character encoding', select 'Unicode (UTF-8)'. Please note: Firefox has an auto-detect for character encoding, which can reset your choice. If you find that your characters are reverting to incorrect displays, turn auto-detect off, or View ->Character encoding -> Customize List. Select UTF-8 in the right-hand list, and click move up to make it your default, or select Western (ISO-8859-1) and click remove.

Chrome: customise (spanner icon in top right) -> tools -> encoding 'Unicode (UTF-8)'.

The EAD Editor enables you to

• Create new descriptions by filling in a simple form
• Create collection-level and multi-level entries
• Add links to images and digital content
• Embed images in descriptions
• Save and store descriptions for subsequent editing
• Use a right-click menu to format descriptions
• Create persistent identifiers (URL) for each description
• View a tree structure of multi-level descriptions
• Upload EAD records from your local machine
• Create new users (if you are an administrator)