EAD Editor

The EAD Editor is a cataloguing tool within our Contributor Console. It creates interoperable descriptions in EAD format, but it does not require knowledge of EAD. The Console also provides access to edit your repository description and you can create Online Resource descriptions.

Location: https://editor.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk

Our EAD Editor Help Page provides further information on how to access the Editor, what the Editor does, uploading descriptions and user administration.

"The EAD editor is really clever – it caught a few classic instances of reversed dates, and even where I had duplicated a reference number." (Hub contributor, 2022)

With the Editor you can:

  • Create a collection level or multi-level entry
  • Add former and alternative references in addition to current references
  • Add standardised dates for searching in addition to display dates
  • Link to VIAF names through our VIAF lookup
  • Preview all of your work as you go along
  • Use our formatting menu to add italics, lists and links
  • Add images and links to digital content
  • Add structured index terms, including events
  • Add both place names and geographical features
  • View and navigate your hierarchy via the tree structure
  • Add components with auto references or with your own references
  • Use templates to create boilerplate text
  • Add descriptions of theme-based online resources
  • Create admin users, who can access all descriptions, and basic users, who can access their own edit area

Read about how the University of Leeds have used the Editor to spread the word!

"it was great!..I enjoyed the whole day; the pace was just right, the information all relevant but not overwhelming and all in all I can't think of any way of improving it." (workshop attendee, 2019)