Archivist's Note <processinfo>

Status

Recommended

Description

To indicate how the description was created and who was responsible for it. May include information about accessioning, arranging, describing, preserving, storing, or otherwise preparing the described materials for research use.

Source / Rules

Local

Format

No requirements

Collection/Component level

Recommended at collection level

Tips/Recommendations

  • Specific aspects of each of these activities may be entered within other elements, such as acquisition information - <acqinfo> - or arrangement - <arrangement>

  • It is useful to include information about sources used during the cataloguing process, in particular for the biographical or administrative history

  • You may include the date the description was created within <date> tags

Examples

Input text: <p>These records were organized and cataloged in 2007 by John West.</p>

EAD encoding: <processinfo><p>These records were organized and cataloged in <date>2007</date> by John West.</p></processinfo>

Rendered in web browser as:

Archivist's Note
These records were organized and cataloged in 2007 by John West.



Input text: Description compiled by Rhian Phillips, Archives Hub project archivist with reference to various issues of The Library Association Yearbook, (London: Library Association)

EAD encoding: <processinfo><p>Description compiled by Rhian Phillips, Archives Hub project archivist with reference to various issues of <title render="italic">The Library Association Yearbook</title>, (London: Library Association)</p></processinfo>

Rendered in web browser as:

Archivist's Note
Description compiled by Rhian Phillips, Archives Hub project archivist with reference to various issues of The Library Association Yearbook, (London: Library Association)



Input text: Description complied by Helen Jones, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, October 2002

EAD encoding: <processinfo><p>Description complied by Helen Jones, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, October 2002</p></processinfo>

Rendered in web browser as:

Archivist's Note
Description complied by Helen Jones, Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, October 2002

 

Further Information

EAD Tag Library: <processinfo>

ISAD(G) 3.71.