Society of American Archivists, 2013 eISBN: 978-1-931666-52-7
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
TRENDS IN ARCHIVES PRACTICE, a new, open-ended series of modules by the Society of American Archivists, features authoritative treatments written and edited by top-level professionals that fill significant gaps in archival literature.
Module 1 in the series, STANDARDS FOR ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION, untangles the history of standards development and provides an overview of descriptive standards that an archives might wish to use.
TRENDS IN ARCHIVES PRACTICE includes two other modules: PROCESSING DIGITAL RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS and DESIGNING DESCRIPTIVE AND ACCESS SYSTEMS. Each module can be purchased separately, or you can purchase the bundle, ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION, which features all three modules.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Sibyl Schaefer is the head of digital programs for the Rockefeller Archive Center, where she manages all digital services provided by the department, from digitization to curation.
Janet M. Bunde currently serves as the assistant university archivist and archivist of the John Brademas Congressional Papers at New York University (NYU).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface to Trends in Archives Practice
Archival Arrangement and Description by Chrisopher J. Prom and Thomas J. Frusciano
Module 1: Standards for Archival Description Introduction and the Importance of Standards What Are Standards? Why Use Standards? Standards and Archival Description Archival Descriptive Standards Data Structure Standards Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) Records Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons,and Families (EAC-CPF) Data Content Standards Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts (APPM) General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD[G]) Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (ISAAR[CPF]) International Standard for Describing Functions (ICA-ISDF) International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings (ICA-ISDIAH) Data Value Standards Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Union List of Artists’ Names (ULAN) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) Metadata and Companion Standards Descriptive Metadata Structural Metadata Administrative Metadata The Semantic Web and Linked Data Archival Standards in Action EAD Consortia The Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC) Archival Data Management Software Standards Revisions Archival Description for Your Repository: Choosing the Right Standards Institutional Factors Descriptive Practice Descriptive Resources User Needs Nature of the Materials Community Context Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Case Studies Summary of the UCSD DAMS System by Bradley Westbrook What We Learned at ECU by Experimenting with EAC by Mark Custer Appendix B: Further Reading Appendix C: Acronyms Relating to Archival Description
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