Description of Engineering Artifacts and Archival Data: EAD meets VRA

This paper describes the experience in the implementation of an archival description system based on XML standards: EAD, EAC-CPF and VRA. The system offers the capability of managing and publishing archival descriptions of historical engineering fonds, plus description of the works and artifacts created by civil engineers.To accommodate the different types of descriptions in a single information system, the work environment developed gives the choice of editing data using different XML standards and combine descriptions using XSLT technologies. The system is supported on Oracle(R) XML native databases.