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GENERAL RESOURCES
Rules for Archival Description (Revised Version 2008)
What are Arrangement and Description?
ARRANGEMENT
'With Respect to Original Order': Changing Values in Archival Arrangement )
Chapter 4: Organizing Archival Material
Jenkinson and Schellenberg: A Comparison
Putting the Parts of the Whole Together: Systematic Arrangement of Archives
The Concept of the Archival Fonds in the Post-Custodial Era: Theory, Problems and Solutions
Archivalterity: Rethinking Original Order
RULES FOR ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTON
Rules for Archival Description (Revised Version 2008)
2008 Revisions to RAD - Announcement by the Canadian Committee on Archival Description
Basic RAD: An Introduction to the Preparation of Fonds- and Series-level Descriptions
Using the Rules for Archival Description
INTERNATIONAL DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS
General International Standard Archival Description (International Council on Archives, 2000, 2nd ed)
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families
International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings
DESCRIPTION - ARTICLES AND RESOURCES
Chapter 5: Describing Archival Material
Thinking Outside the Box: Reimagining Archival Description with the "Series" System
Managing the Present: Metadata as Archival Description
Metadata Strategies and Archival Description: Comparing Apples to Oranges
Origin and Development of the Concept of Archival Description
Grounding Archival Description in the Functional Requirements for Evidence
Describing Records in Context in the Continuum: The Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema
SAMPLE DESCRIPTIONS
MemoryBC - British Columbia Archival Information Network
SFU Sample multi-level inventory: Mark Winston fonds
SFU Sample series-level description: Office of the Registrar fonds
SFU Sample file list description: Office of the Registrar fonds
INDEXING
ASA Topic Terms for Fonds Level Database
AABC Municipal & Local Terms: A Supplement to The British Columbia Thesaurus
AABC The British Columbia Thesaurus: a subject indexing tool for B.C. Archives
PUBLICATIONS
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Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) / Kathleen D. Roe (Society of American Archivists, 2005)
Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (Archival Classics Series) / S. Muller, J. A. Feith and R. Fruin (Society of American Archivists, 2003, orig. 1940)
The ANLA Resource Binder for Small Archives, Chapter 3: Arrangement (Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives, 2002)
The ANLA Resource Binder for Small Archives, Chapter 7: Untangling RAD (Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives, 2002)
RAD Revealed: A Basic Primer on the Rules for Archival Description / Wendy M. McDuff and Marlene van Ballegooie (Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)
The Archival Fonds: from Theory to Practice / Terry Eastwood (ed) (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)
Subject Indexing for Archives: The Report of the Subject Indexing Working Group. (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)
Authority Control: A Manual for Archivists (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1991)
