Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002

EAD Elements

<creation> Creation

Description:

A subelement of the <profiledesc> portion of <eadheader> used for information about the encoding of the finding aid, including the person(s) or agency(ies) responsible for the encoding, the date, and the circumstances under which the encoding was done.

This element is modeled on a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD header element.

May contain:

#PCDATA, abbr, archref, bibref, date, emph, expan, extptr, extref, lb, linkgrp, ptr, ref, title

May occur within:

profiledesc

Attributes:

Example:

    <eadheader langencoding="iso639-2b"> . . .
    <profiledesc>
        <creation>Machine-readable finding aid and skeletal markup derived via a
        macro from WordPerfect file; markup checked and completed by Sarah Taylor.
        <date normal="19950423">April 23, 1995.</date>
        </creation>
    </profiledesc> . . .
    </eadheader>