In EAD Version 1.0 was a subelement of Adjunct Descriptive data , which has been deprecated in EAD 2002 (see Appendix B). The new Description Group element, which can group any of the -level elements (except the Description of Subordinate Components ), may be used to wrap elements where a group heading is desirable. The element can be used to replace when converting finding aids encoded in EAD V1.0 to EAD 2002.
The element is comparable to ISAD(G) data element 3.5.3 and MARC field 544 with indicator 1.