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Archival description must be clear about what archivists know, what they don’t know, and how they know it. Archivists must document and make discoverable the actions they take on records. Archival description is accessible. Archival description should be easy to use, re-use, and share. Each collection within a repository must have an archival ...
The Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is the Canadian archival descriptive standard. It provides a set of rules based on traditional archival principles, whose purpose is to provide a consistent and commonly shared descriptive foundation for describing archival materials within a given fonds. [ 1 ]
UNESCO Archives are organized using the AtoM database and adhere to ISAD (G) standard for archival description. The UNESCO Archives are also organized using a method known as archival description in the archives database AtoM for archival description. The archival description standard used by UNESCO Archives in AtoM is the General International ...
Sidebar for use in External Links section. Uses Wikidata property "Archives at" (P485). Displays location of archives, identifiers, and access level. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status title title Title of archival collection, including highest level of description. If description URL is also given, title will link out to given URL in "Source". Example ...
While archival standards vary by country (e.g. Rules for Archival Description), they follow a broad international consensus . For example, archival descriptions will always proceed from the general to the specific.
Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF) is an XML standard for encoding information about the creators of archival materials – i.e., a corporate body, person or family -- including their relationships to (a) resources (books, collections, papers, etc.) and (b) other corporate bodies, persons and families.
A citation for Archival holdings -- the citation can be used to describe objects at a variety of levels from collections, but assumes that the object are at a research institution, in a specific collection. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status collection collection The specific collection at an institution String required institution institution The ...
Following the development of technologies in the middle to late 1980s that enabled the descriptive encoding of machine-readable findings, it became possible to consider the development of digital finding aids for archives. [1] Work on an encoding standard for archival description began in 1992 at the University of California, Berkeley, and in ...