Archival Arrangement and Description - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931666458 ISBN 13: 9781931666459

Publisher: Society of American Archivists, 2013

Synopsis

Archival Arrangement and Description -- the first installment in the series Trends in Archives Practice -- explores three areas of evolution: the necessity to understand and use a range of descriptive standards to facilitate intellectual control and to improve access; the development of techniques to process born-digital or electronic records; and the methods used to make descriptive information about archives, and archival materials themselves, accessible via the Internet. Three modules are featured:

Module 1: Standards for Archival Description
by Sibyl Schaefer and Janet M. Bunde
Untangles the history of standards development and provides an overview of descriptive standards that an archives might wish to use.

Module 2: Processing Digital Records and Manuscripts
by J. Gordon Daines III
Builds on familiar terminology and models to show how any repository can take practical steps to process born-digital materials and to make them accessible to users.

Module 3: Designing Descriptive and Access Systems
by Daniel A. Santamaria
Implementation advice regarding the wide range of tools and software that support specific needs in arranging, describing, and providing access to analog and digital archival materials.

Also included is a superb introduction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Society of American Archivists
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931666458
• ISBN 13: 9781931666459
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215
• Editor: Christopher J. Prom