2024 Call for Comments

This release includes the following schemas for testing:

• ead-4-dev.xsd: This is the w3c XSD serialization of the EAD 4.0 draft schema.
• ead.nvdl: If you would like to experiment with the XHTML embedding options in EAD 4.0, start here. For more about NVDL, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace-based_Validation_Dispatching_Language
• ead.sch: This is the draft version of the EAD 4.0 schematron, which we recommend using to ensure that machine-readable dates are encoded correctly.

To get started, rather than creating an EAD 4.0 file from scratch, we suggest that you copy the following EAD 4.0 test file, which is pre-associated with both the draft schema and schematron: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAA-SDT/EAS-Best-Practices/examples/_examples/ead4-call-for-comments/ead4-starter-file.xml