EAD Basics 7: Title Page

The tag <titlepage> groups together the finding aid's bibliographic information. Things such as addresses, author, block quotations, dates, edition, volume number, publisher, sponsor, subtitles, and the actual title of the finding aid.

It occurs inside the <frontmatter> tag.

An example:

<frontmatter>
        <titlepage>
            <titleproper>Inventory of The Arequipa Sanatorium Records,
            <date>1911&ndash;1958</date></titleproper>
            <num type="Collection number:">BANC MSS 92/894 c</num>
            <publisher>The Bancroft Library<lb/>University of California,
             Berkeley<lb/>Berkeley, California
            </publisher>
            <list type="deflist">
                <defitem>
                    <label>Processed by:</label>
                    <item>Lynn Downey</item>
                </defitem>
                <defitem>
                    <label>Completed by:</label>
                    <item>Mary Morganti and Katherine Bryant</item>
                </defitem>
                <defitem>
                    <label>Date Completed:</label>
                    <item><date>May 1994</date></item>
                </defitem>
                <defitem>
                    <label>Encoded by:</label>
                    <item>Gabriela A. Montoya</item>
                </defitem>
            </list>
            <p>&copy; 1996 The Regents of the University of California.
            All rights reserved.</p>
        </titlepage>
    </frontmatter>