Data Creation

Information on creating, editing and enhancing descriptions.

You may be interested in the Cataloguing Code of Ethics, produced by the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee.

We also have some helpful top tips for cataloguing.

For more information around the retirement of the Console and EAD Editor, please see the Console FAQ page.

An introduction.

Persistent identifiers for archive descriptions.

Archives Hub mandatory fields for collections and items.

Creating more detailed descriptions,

Use of EAD tags and attributes

XML environments for creating EAD descriptions.