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For further discussion of this point see David Bearman, “Documenting Documentation”,Archivaria 34 (Summer 1992): 33.
Jay Kennedy and Cherryl Schauder,Records Management A Guide to Corporate Recordkeeping (South Melbourne: Longman, 1999), pp. 9–12.
This view of continuum based description comes from information contained in the ‘About the Project’ section of the Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Project Web site, dated June 2000. This site is accessible from the Records Continuum Research Group's Web site at http://rcrg.dstc.edu.au/research/spirt/about.html (as at 29 September 2001). Further articulation of continuum based notions of description is provided in Sue McKemmish and Dagmar Parer, “Towards Frameworks for Standardising Recordkeeping Metadata”, inArchives and Manuscripts 26(1) (May 1998): 24–45.
Chris Hurley, “The Making and Keeping of Records: (1) What Are Finding Aids For?”,Archives and Manuscripts 26(1) (May 1998): 64.
Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward, “The Archival Document: A Submission to the Inquiry into Australia as an Information Society”,Archives and Manuscripts 19(1) (May 1991): 19.
International Council on Archives,General International Standard Archival Description, Section I.3.
Previously, a descriptive area of the standard wasContext and Content Area. Now, however, this has been divided intoContext Area andContent and Structure Area, a more logical and useful combination.
General International Standard Archival Description, Section 15.
See for example, Peter Scott, “The Record Group Concept: A Case for Abandoment”,The American Archivist 29 (October 1966): 493–504. For further explanation of how the series system operates in practice and for further discussion of its evolution see the series of articles by Peter Scott, Gail Finlay and Clive Smith published in Archives and Manuscripts between 1978 and 1981: “Archives and Administrative Change: Some Methods and Approaches”, Part 1 (vol. 7, no. 3, August 1978), Part 2 (vol. 7, no. 4, April 1979), Part 3 (vol. 8, no. 1, June 1980), Part 4 (vol. 8, no. 4, December 1980) and Part 5 (vol. 9, no. 1, September 1981).
See for example “Standards, Standardisation and Documentation”,Archives at the Centre, Proceedings of the 1996 Australian Society of Archivists Conference (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated, 1997), pp. 60–65 and “The Making and Keeping of Records: (1) What Are Finding Aids For?”, op. cit.
See the RecordSearch database on the National Archives of Australia Web site at www.naa.gov.au or the Investigator database on the State Records NSW Web site at www.records.nsw.gov.au TheCommonwealth Record Series Manual which outlines the entities and elements within the Commonwealth's model of the series system is also accessible via the National Archives' Web site.
For further discussion of this point see David Bearman, “Documenting Documentation”,Archivaria 34 (Summer 1992): 33–49; and Kent Haworth, “Standardizing Archival Description”Archivum, Proceeding of the 12th International Congress on Archives, Montreal, 6–11 September 1992 pp. 187–199.
Kent Haworth, “Standardizing Archival Description”,Archivum (September 1992): 187.
Discussion of ISAD (G) as a content structure and its relationship to other descriptive standards on theEncoded Archival Description ListServ during September 2001 informed this synthesis of the standard.
Resources available include The ICADictionary of Archival Terminology, Archives, Personal Papers and Manuscripts, Rules for Archival Description, Manual of Archival Description, and the AustralianKeyword AAA—Thesaurus of General Terms.
The source for each of the examples is cited and the attention placed on balancing the selection of examples from around the world is pleasing to note.
For further discussion of this point see David Bearman, “Documenting Documentation,”Archivaria 34 (Summer 1992): 35
Meg Sweet and David Thomas “Archives Described at Collection Level”,D-Lib Magazine 6(9) (September 2000)http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september00/sweet/09sweet.html
Stephen Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman, “Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information seeking”,Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(4) (2000): 380–393.
For Further discussion of Encoded Archival Description see Daniel Pitti, “Encoded Archival Description. An Introduction and Overview”,D-Lib Magazine 5(11) (November 1999)http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november99/11pitti.html
For further discussion of this point see Daniel Pitti, “Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context”, presented atComputing Arts 2001, Digital for Research in the Humanities. A conference held at the University of Sydney, 26–28 September 2001 available online at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001/index.html (November, 2001).
Although when first published the original area of the description wasContext and Content Area some published versions of the first edition indicate that this change was made before publication of the second edition. See Università di Pavia: http://dobc.unipv.it/ obc/add/infap/archdes/isad(g)e.html The division ofContext area and Content and Structure area is clearly established in the second edition.
International Council on Archives,General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD G), second edition. 1999. Section 3.2 Context area.
International Council on Archives,International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporations, Persons and Families (ISAAR CPF), 1996, Introduction.
See Adrian Cunningham, “Dynamic Descriptions: Australian Strategies for the Intellectual Control of Records and Recordkeeping Systems”, Symposium held by the Royal Society of Archivists of the Netherlands to honour the centenary of the publication of the Dutch Archives Manual of Muller, Fith and Fruin, Amsterdam, 23 October 1998. http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/strategies/amsterdam%5Fpaper.htm
International Council on Archives,General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD G), second edition, 1999. Introduction.
See Adrian Cunningham, “Dynamic Descriptions: Australian Strategies for The Intellectual Control of Records and Recordkeeping Systems”.
See Adrian Cunningham, “Dynamic Descriptions: Australian Strategies for The Intellectual Control of Records and Recordkeeping Systems’.
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Cumming, K., Scifleet, P., Benavides, A. et al. Book Reviews. Archival Science 1, 393–406 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02438905
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