Two New ICA Descriptive Standards: ISDF and ISDIAH

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Notes

1. International Council on Archives, International Standard for Describing Functions, 1st ed. (Paris: International Council on Archives, 2007), http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/ISDF%20ENG.pdf.

2. International Council on Archives, International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings, 1st ed. (Paris: International Council on Archives, 2008), http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/ISDIAH%20Eng_0.pdf.

3. International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd ed. (Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 1999), http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/isad_g_2e.pdf.

4. International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards, ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, 2nd ed. (Paris: International Council on Archives, 2004), http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/ISAAR2EN.pdf.

5. International Council on Archives Provisional Section on Standards and Best Practices, 2005, “Minutes of the Bureau meeting in Bern, June 1st, 2005,” http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/SPS%20BERN%202005ENG_2.doc, 2.

6. The preface to International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings, (P1) explicitly states that it is an earlier work item.

7. See Gerald Chaudron, “The Potential of ‘Function’ As an Archival Descriptor,” Journal of Archival Organization 6, no. 4 (2008): 269–287, for a full discussion of the role of function in records management and archival practice.

8. Elizabeth Shepherd and Geoffrey Yeo, Managing Records: A Handbook of Principles and Practice (London: Facet, 2003).

9. International Council on Archives, International Standard for Describing Functions, 10.

10. International Council on Archives Committee on Best Practices and Standards, 2007, “Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards (ICA/CBPS), Dresden (Germany), 2007, May 2–4,” http://www.ica.org/sites/default/files/CBPS%20Report%20Germany%202007.pdf, 3.

11. Chaudron also wonders about the applicability of function to manuscript collections. Chaudron, “The Potential of ‘Function’ As an Archival Descriptor,”, 284.

12. International Council on Archives Committee on Best Practices and Standards, “Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards,” op cit., 3–4.

13. International Council on Archives, International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings, point 4.7, 14.

14. International Council on Archives, International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings, P6, 6.

15. Heather MacNeil, “Archivalterity: Rethinking Original Order,” Archivaria 66 (2008): 14.

16. International Council on Archives Committee on Best Practices and Standards, “Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards,” op cit., 10. Other projects address broader issues that include standards for archival description as well as standards for other archival functions.