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Maintenance of EAG2012, the Encoded Archival Guide for describing institutions with archival holdings
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[Major revision] Introduce camelCase spelling throughout EAG 3.0 #104

Open kerstarno opened 1 year ago

kerstarno commented 1 year ago

Provide a general summary of the issue in the Title above. Delete the part of the issue template that does not apply depending on whether you describe a change to an existing element / attribute or the addition of a new one.

Creator of issue

State your name, organisation and ways to reach you. Name: Kerstin Arnold Organisation: Archives Portal Europe Foundation, Working Group on Standards Email: standards@archivesportaleurope.net GitHub username (if applicable): @kerstarno

Change in name

Indicate any changes in name. Throughout EAG 3.0, element and attribute names are to be used with camelCase spelling, i.e. if consisting of two or more words, the second and any following parts of the element and attributes names have to start with a capital letter. The same applies to any predefined lists of element contents and attribute values. EAG 2012 had implemented this inconsistently only with elements and attributes added as new back then, while keeping existing elements and attributes from EAG 0.2 with small letters.

kerstarno commented 1 year ago

This mainly effects elements and attributes in the descriptive part of EAG, as the <control> section already uses camelCase spelling throughout in EAG 2012. Some element and attribute names will also be slightly changed in this context: