Arrangement

A Manual for Small Archives, 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

More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing

Rules for Archival Description (RAD)

Rules for Archival Description (Revised Version 2008). You can choose to download the entire manual or just specific chapters.

International Descriptive Standards

International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

Description

A Manual for Small Archives, Chapter 5: Describing Archival Material

RAD Physical Description Builder University of Northern British Columbia Archives

Society of American Archivists: Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

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

Sample: SFU Archives multi-level inventory: Mark Winston fonds

Sample: SFU Archives series-level description: Office of the Registrar fonds

Indexing

AABC: The British Columbia Thesaurus: a subject indexing tool for B.C. Archives

MemoryBC Subject Groups: 30 Subject Group headings, based on ASA subject terms and the BC Thesaurus, used for the MemoryBC indexing project  

Publications

• Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) by Kathleen D. Roe. (Society of American Archivists, 2005)

• Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (Archival Classics Series) by S. Muller, J. A. Feith and R. Fruin. (Society of American Archivists, 2003, orig. 1940)

• RAD Revealed: A Basic Primer on the Rules for Archival Description by Wendy M. McDuff and Marlene van Ballegooie. (Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)

• The Archival Fonds: from Theory to Practice by 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)