Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook
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Description: Describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories.
Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook for the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories. They are applied in a variety of systems and products, including automated information systems, manual and automated catalogs, in-house finding aids, book and serial publications, and filing and storage systems. Detailed entries are provided for 86 standards, while another 157 are identified in summary lists. Introductions to each chapter discuss the historical development and interrelationships among standards used for particular applications. Detailed entries identify the developer(s) of the standard, describe how and why it is applied in archival practice, supply information on how to obtain copies of the standard, and provide sources for additional information or guidance on its use. When further information or the standards themselves are available online, a link is provided.
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| Page title: | Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook |
| Keywords: | standards, archival description, information systems, data exchange, cataloging, finding aids, authority control, editing, publishing, labeling, filing, statistics, glossaries, archives, libraries, manuscripts, archivists, Marion E. Matters, Victoria Irons Walch |
| Description: | Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories. |
| IP-address: | 50.19.112.64 |