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Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards Website

The Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS) is responsible for developing, maintaining, monitoring, and promulgating standards used by archivists to describe their holdings. This includes descriptive standards developed within the SAA as well as those developed outside the archival community. The subcommittee reports to the Standards Committee.

• Annual Report (Current)
• Charge
• Comments Process
• Subcommittee Roster
• EAD Working Group
• EAC Working Group
• Calendar [1998-2001]

Annual Meetings

• 2008 Annual Meeting (San Francisco)
  --Joint Meeting with Standards Committee
  • Annual Report
• 2007 Annual Meeting (Chicago)
  --Joint Meeting with Standards Committee
• 2006 Annual Meeting (Washington DC)
  --Joint Meeting with Standards Committee
• 2005 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)
  --Joint Meeting with Standards Committee
• 2004 Annual Meeting (Boston)
  • Annual Report | Minutes | Agenda | CCAD Report | CC:DA Report | News from OCLC
• 2003 Annual Meeting (Los Angeles)
  • Minutes | Agenda | CCAD Report | CCDA Report | OCLC Report
• 2002 Annual Meeting (Birmingham)
  • Minutes | Agenda | Reports (PDF)
• 2001 Annual Meeting (Washington)
  • Minutes | Agenda | Reports
• 2000 Annual Meeting (Denver)
  • Minutes | Agenda | Reports | 1999/2000 Annual Report
• 1999 Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh)
  • Minutes | Agenda | Reports | Process Discussion | 1998/1999 Annual Report

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