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"Records in archives possess unique characteristics. "The principle of respect des fonds is the basis of archival arrangement and description. "Arrangement involves the identification of groupings within the material. "Description reflects arrangement. "The rules of description apply to all archival materials, regardless of form or medium.
7.Description Control [3] Archivist's Note: Information on who prepared the description and how. Rules or Conventions: Protocols on which the description is based. Date(s) of descriptions: Dates of creation and revision. The standard provides a framework for a common approach, rather than a rigid format. [3] [4]
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 ]
Version 0.2 was released in 2021, now featuring an independent introduction to archival description (RiC-IAD) and updates to the original RiC-CM and RiC-O. [2] A fourth part of the standard covering Application Guidelines (RiC-AG) is also expected, prior to a completed RiC version 1.0 being released as an official ICA recommendation.
A bibliographic description represents an individual published item, is based on and derived from the physical item, and is thus considered item-level. [3] Archival description, by contrast, represents a collection, or a fonds, often containing individual items of various media, sharing a common origin, or provenance. [12]
Basic description: Information about the collection's creator; physical dimensions of the collection in the archive; collection date range Biographical sketch/Historical note: Background information on the person or organisation who created the records, or on the history of the collection itself
The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...
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.