Standards for Archival Description: Table of Contents

Standards for Archival Description: A Handbook
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Foreword / Lawrence Dowler

Preface / Victoria Irons Walch

Scope of Coverage
Archival Participation in the Development of Standards
An Overview of Standards: The WGSAD Matrix
Organization of the Handbook
Contents of Chapters and Entries
Obtaining Copies of the Standards
Coping with Acronyms

Chapter 1: Evolution of Standards for Description in the United States

Data Elements Used in Archives, Manuscripts, and Records Repository Information Systems: A Dictionary of Standard Terminology (NISTF Data Elements Dictionary)

Also of Interest

Chapter 2: Automated Systems and Network Specifications

ISO 7498-1:1984. Information processing systems--Open Systems Interconnection--Basic reference model (OSI)

ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1992. Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Library Applications

ANSI X3.138-1988. Information Systems--Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS)

ANSI/NISO Z39.58-1992. Common Command Language for On-line Interactive Information Retrieval

Also of Interest

Chapter 3: Information Interchange Formats (Data Structure Standards)

ISO 2709:1981. Documentation--Format for bibliographic information interchange on magnetic tape

ANSI Z39.2-1985. Bibliographic Information Interchange

USMARC Format for Bibliographic Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation (UFBD)

USMARC Format for Archival and Manuscripts Control (USMARC AMC)

USMARC Format for Visual Materials (USMARC VM)

USMARC Format for Authority Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation

USMARC Format for Holdings Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation

USMARC Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, Tapes

Also of Interest

Chapter 4: Cataloging Rules (Data Content Standards)

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR 2)

Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries (APPM)

Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections (GIHC)

Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual (AMIM)

Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI)

Also of Interest

Chapter 5: Finding Aids and Other Descriptive Formats (Non-Cataloging Structure and Content Standards)

Inventories and Registers: A Handbook of Techniques and Examples

The Preparation of Inventories

Guidelines for the Preparation of General Guides to National Archives: A RAMP Study

ANSI Z39.14-1979 (R1987). Writing Abstracts

ANSI Z39.10-1971 (R1977). Directories of Libraries and Information Centers

ISO 8879:1986. Information processing--Text and office systems--Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

ANSI X12 suite. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Also of Interest

Chapter 6: Authority Control

Thesaurus Construction And Use

ANSI Z39.19-1980. Guidelines for Thesaurus Structure, Construction, and Use

ISO 2788:1986. Documentation--Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

ISO 5964:1985. Documentation--Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri

ISO 5963:1985. Documentation--Methods for examining documents, determining their subjects and selecting indexing terms

Actual Thesauri and Authorities

NAMES

Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNA)

SUBJECTS

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Topical Terms for Subject Access (LCTGM)

FORM AND GENRE TERMS

Form Terms for Archival and Manuscript Control (FTAMC)

Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Descriptive Terms for Graphic Materials: Genre and Physical Characteristic Headings (GMGPC)

Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms (MIM)

OTHER PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION TERMS

Binding Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Paper Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Provenance Evidence: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

OTHER

Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)

Relator Terms for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Libraries

USMARC Relator Codes

Thesaurus of University Terms (TUT)

Also of Interest

Chapter 7: Codes

DATES AND TIMES

ANSI X3.30-1985. Representation for Calendar Date and Ordinal Date for Information Interchange

ANSI X3.43-1986. Representation of Local Time of the Day for Information Interchange

ISO 8601:1988. Data elements and interchange formats--Information interchange--Representation of dates and times

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

ANSI/NISO/ISO 3166:1988. Codes for the representation of names of countries

USMARC Code List for Countries

USMARC Code List for Geographic Areas

LANGUAGES

ANSI Z39.53-1987. Codes for the Representation of Languages for Information Interchange

USMARC Code List for Languages