Biography or History | EADiva Toggle navigation About Blog Me Contact List of Elements Alphabetical List of Elements Sample EAD Files Submit A Plain-Talking EAD Tag Library Home About List of Elements Alphabetical Element List Sample EAD Files Blog Me Contact Biography or History is an essay or chronology which puts the materials in a historical context. It may contain the information as simple text inside

elements or a . It may be nested within itself for complex biographical and historical data (for example, multiple family members). is one of the elements which may be used within , , , through , and .It may also be used in . Attributes ALTRENDER – not required. Use if the content of the element should be displayed or printed differently than the rendering established in a style sheet for other occurrences of the element. AUDIENCE – not required. Use to set whether the element’s contents will be visible to external users or to internal ones. Possible values are: “internal” and “external.” ID – not required. Creates an ID for element. Can be used for linking. ENCODINGANALOG – not required. May contain information to map this tag to a particular element in another schema. TYPE – not required. May be used to designate the type of information. Subelements may contain further elements, as well as

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, and . Note, since PCDATA is not used within this element, it serves as a wrapper, at least of a
element containing the actual text. DACS See DACS Section 2.7, Administrative/biographical history. (Page 34 of 2007 edition; page 57 of 2007 edition PDF.) For more on writing this content, see DACS Section 10, Administrative/biographical history. (Page 93 of 2007 edition; page 116 of 2007 edition PDF.) Examples Some examples of how may be used: Biography
Sarah J. Bell was born in Hillsboro Ohio in 1945. After graduating from St. John's College in 1963, she joined the recently-formed Peace Corps and was sent to teach math on the island of Mindanao, Philippines. She spent two years teaching math to students and high school teachers at Central Mindanao University in Musuan. After returning to the United States, she worked measuring air pollutants in Ann Arundel County, MD, before obtaining a PhD in Linguistics from MIT. She taught at the University of British Columbia, BC, Canada and studied the language of the Secwepemc (also called Shuswap) people of the interior of British Columbia.

In 1982, she married Bruce B. Kitchin and moved to Delaware, United States. Upon the birth of her first child in 1985, she retired from college-level teaching and instead taught adult literacy classes with Literacy Volunteers. In 2004, she began teaching Latin to middle school students at Towle Institute in Delaware, where she continued to teach until the end of 2009, 7 months before her death from carcinoid cancer.
Biography
Sarah J. Bell was born in Hillsboro Ohio in 1945. After graduating from St. John's College in 1963, she joined the recently-formed Peace Corps and was sent to teach math on the island of Mindanao, Philippines. She spent two years teaching math to students and high school teachers at Central Mindanao University in Musuan. After returning to the United States, she worked measuring air pollutants in Ann Arundel County, MD, before obtaining a PhD in Linguistics from MIT. She taught at the University of British Columbia, BC, Canada and studied the language of the Secwepemc (also called Shuswap) people of the interior of British Columbia.

In 1982, she married Bruce B. Kitchin and moved to Delaware, United States. Upon the birth of her first child in 1985, she retired from college-level teaching and instead taught adult literacy classes with Literacy Volunteers. In 2004, she began teaching Latin to middle school students at Towle Institute in Delaware, where she continued to teach until the end of 2009, 7 months before her death from carcinoid cancer.
Let’s make this a chronological list for a particular folder. Chronological Events October 28, 1978 Sam Wossname succeeds John Othername as department head. March 15, 1979 Departmental reorganization. Chronological Events October 28, 1978 Sam Wossname succeeds John Othername as department head. March 15, 1979 Departmental reorganization. EAD tag library entry for . This is the EAD 2002 version of this element. If you are looking for the EAD3 element page, please visit the current EADiva.com element page. Search Using the Site Official Library of Congress EAD Links EAD Official Site Introduction to Attributes General Attributes Tabular Attributes Linking Attributes EAD Crosswalks EAD Examples Resources Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition EAC-CPF Tag Library EAD 2002 Best Practices (LoC) OhioLINK EAD Taskforce pages US Institution Codes List of LANGCODE values Software Archivists’ Toolkit Installing Archivists’ Toolkit on your computer Archon ArchivesSpace The EADiva EAD 2002 Tag Library was created by Ruth Kitchin Tillman. The EAD 2002 Tag Library is copyright © The Society of American Archivists, 2002. Used with permission of the Society of American Archivists. Original design by 801red. Site recoded and redesigned by Ruth Tillman.