OASIS Documentation
Links to guidelines, procedures and other resources associated with the authoring and uploading of finding aids as well as use of OASIS.
Markup software
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| Authoring Finding Aids |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Using WordPerfect 12 for XML Authoring and Houghton template file |
pdf (instructions)
wpt (template) |
02/14/08 |
| Installing XMetal |
html |
05/15/08 |
| XMetal Tips |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Harvard EAD schema/dtd |
schema
dtd & support files |
03/29/06 |
| EAD template: Baker Library |
xml |
05/13/08 |
| EAD template: Countway |
xml |
05/13/08 |
| EAD template: Harvard University Archives |
xml |
05/13/08 |
| EAD template: Houghton |
xml |
05/13/08 |
Markup guidelines & encoding examples
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| Harvard Recommended EAD Guidelines |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Harvard Minimal-Level EAD Guidelines |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Houghton Library EAD Guidelines |
html |
|
| Linking to Finding Aids from Catalogs and Web Sites |
html |
05/14/08 |
| External Links and In-line Images |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Internal Links (within Finding Aids) |
html |
05/15/08 |
| Chronology Lists |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Indices |
html |
05/15/08 |
| Redacting an OASIS Finding Aid |
pdf |
03/21/08 |
| Retrospective Conversion Guidelines (Houghton) |
pdf |
03/24/08 |
Special characters & graphics
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| Diacritics and Special Characters in EAD |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Thumbnail Logo Scanning Guidelines |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Shields and Logos of OASIS Participants |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Table of ISO8859-1 Codes and Entity Names |
html |
05/14/08 |
Controlled vocabularies
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| Recommended Form and Genre Terms |
html |
05/14/08 |
| US Marc List of Relator Terms |
html |
|
External EAD resources
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| EAD 2002 Tag library |
html |
|
| EAD Cookbook 2002 |
html |
|
| EAD official web site (Library of Congress) |
html |
|
| EAD help pages (SAA-sponsored EAD RoundTable) |
html |
|
Submitting finding aids to OASIS
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| Batch Loader Instructions |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Interactive Loader Instructions |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Digital Finding Aids Workflow |
html |
05/14/08 |
About using OASIS
| Resource title |
Format(s) |
Rev. date |
| OASIS 2.2.8 Release Notes (4/29/2008) |
html |
05/14/08 |
| OASIS 2.2 Release Notes (6/26/2006) |
html |
05/14/08 |
| OASIS Catalog User Guide |
html |
03/25/08 |
| OASIS Indexing Decisions |
html |
05/14/08 |
| Linking to Finding Aids from Catalogs and Web Sites |
html |
05/14/08 |
