EAD3 and the consequences of a the new vision

Notes: Resumen: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) has been undergoing a major revision during the last three and a half years. The current article is trying to shed a light on the aims of this revision, on the steps undertaken as well as on some of the changes envisaged with EAD3. The article thereby covers the activities of the Technical Subcommittee on EAD (TS-EAD) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) until early February 2014 when the EAD3 gamma has been made available for final comments by the EAD community. The last part of the article also provides a first evaluation of the expected impact of a possible move from EAD 2002 to EAD3 with the example of the Archives Portal Europe.