L-90. Designing Archival Description Systems - Advance Reading List

• Preliminary Advices

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  NB: If you have limited time, the essential reading is marked with an asterisk.

  I. International Council of Archives Standards

  * ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description (Second Edition: 2000)

  * ISAAR(CPF): International Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (Second Edition: 2003)

  * ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions (First Edition: 2007)

  * ISDIAH: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

  (First Edition: 2007)

  II. Markup, Database, and Modeling Technologies

  * Ronald Bourret. XML and Databases (Last update 2005)

  * XML and Databases (Chapter One in XML for DB2 Information Integration (IBM Redbooks))

  III. Archival Theory and Practice

  Adrian Cunningham. “Harnessing the Power of Provenance in Archival Description: An Australian Perspective on the Development of the Second Edition of ISAAR(CPF)” in Journal of Archival Organization (New York: Haworth), Vol. 5, Nos. 1/2 2007.

  Daniel Pitti. “Technology and the Transformation of Archival Description” in Encoding Across Frontiers: Proceedings of the European Conference on Encoded Archival Description and Context (EAD and EAC), Paris, France, 7-8 October 2004 (New York: Haworth, 2005). Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Archival Organization (New York: Haworth), Vol. 3, Nos. 12/3 2005.

  Peter Scott, “The Record Group Concept: A Case for Abandonment” AMERICAN ARCHIVIST 29:493-504 (October 1966).