Archives Florida is a growing database of finding aids (guides and inventories) to collections held by archives in Florida. Any archive, library, historical society, museum or similar agency in Florida with archival collections is eligible to contribute finding aids to the Archives Florida database if the finding aids adhere to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and follow the Statewide EAD Best Practice Guidelines.

Archives Florida grew from a grant-funded initiative named Opening Archives: Improving Access to Primary Sources in Florida. In 2006, a grant from the State Library and Archives of Florida supported four regional workshops workshops that trained more than 80 people from 40 organizations. The final project report was submitted November 1, 2006."

Additional project funding in 2008 allowed FCLA and its partners to offer additional Introduction to EAD workshops, and to contract with the Society of American Archivists to teach additional workshops across Florida on topics such as EAD Stylesheets. The Opening Archives project continues train librarians, archivists and curators to create electronic finding aids as part of their routine collection processing and workflow. Please contact FCLA or one of the project EAD Trainer/Consultants if you would like more information about using EAD, or contributing EAD-encoded collection inventories to the Archives Florida database.