Abstract
Now, EAD, Encoded Archival Description and EAC, Encoded Archival Context are known as de-facto International Standard of archival electronic finding aids. This article surveys the path to application experiment of EAD and EAC for the Japanese archives. And it shows the possibility of EAD and EAC that the use of XML clarifies. As a result, we will realize the following: The archival data constructed along EAD/EAC function as not only the finding aids but also basic information resources or "real" archival descriptions. Those data will be variously reused with the aid of elementary XML technology.
