Putting Descriptive Standards to Work, edited by Kris Kiesling and Christopher J. Prom, is the most recent addition to SAA’s Trends in Archives Practice series. The book consists of four modules: Module 17: Implementing DACS: A Guide to the Archival Content Standard by Cory L. Nimer, lead archivists through the provisions of Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS); Module 18: Using EAD3, by Kelcy Shepherd, introduces Encoded Archival Description Version EAD3; Module 19: Introducing EAC-CPF by Katherine M. Wisser, introduces Encoded Archival Context–Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF); and Module 20: Sharing Archival Metadata, by Aaron Rubinstein, explores strategies for sharing archival metadata with researchers in the digital humanities and other archivists.

Cory L. Nimer is the university archivist at Brigham Young University, where he previously served as a manuscript cataloger, metadata specialist, and technical services archivist. He has served the Society of American Archivists on a number of standards-related bodies, including the Standards
Committee, the Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards, and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards, and as the SAA Representative to the American Library Association's Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC :DA) and the MARC Advisory Committee. Nimer holds an MA in history from Sonoma State University and an MLIS from San José State University.

Kelcy Shepherd is the DPLA network manager at the Digital Public Library of America. In the Society of American Archivists, she has served as chair of the Description Section and was a member of the Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards and Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description. Shepherd was actively involved in the EAD3 revision process and served as editor of the Encoded Archival Description Tag Library—Version EAD3 (SAA, 2015). She has worked on digital archives and digital library projects for more than fifteen years. Kelcy holds an MLIS from Simmons College.

Katherine M. Wisser is an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She serves as the co-director of the dual degree program in Archives and History. She holds an MA in history, an MSLS, and a PhD in Information Science. She teaches courses on archival description and metadata. Wisser served as the chair to the working group that formalized the EAC -CPF standard and currently serves as co-chair of the Technical Subcommittee responsible for the creation and maintenance of archival encoding standards for the Society of American Archivists.

Aaron Rubinstein is the university and digital archivist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an adjunct professor in the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science. Prior to that he was the archivist for Digital Collections at Tufts University and the collections manager at the Yiddish Book Center. Rubinstein has helped develop and maintain EAC - CPF, is a member of the International Council on Archives’ Experts Group on Archival Description, and has been writing and speaking about archives on the Semantic Web since 2008.

Introduction - 1

Module 17: Implementing DACS: A Guide to the Archival Content Standard - 7

Module 18: Using EAD3 - 155

Module 19: Introducing EAC-CPF - 239

Module 20: Sharing Archival Metadata - 297