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Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

DACS is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, and can be applied to all material types.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, ...

Describing Archives: A Content Standard - Wikipedia

DACS is a standard used for describing materials in archives. First adopted by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in March 2004.

DESCRIBING - Society of American Archivists

Archival description exists to facilitate the use of archives by people in order to understand the past through traces in records. Its efficacy ...

Overview of Archival Description

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, ...

Archival Description | Librarians and Archivists | Library of Congress

Archival description encompasses the dual processes of cataloging and production of finding aids.

DACS Primer 1: What is archival description? - YouTube

Quiz Yourself: https://goo.gl/forms/JIgnjSmky616taA73 Next Video: https://youtu.be/6yW1tStTu38 DACS Primer Home: ...

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) | SAA

DACS is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, and can be applied to all material types.

Product Details | Society of American Archivists

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Second Edition facilitates consistent, appropriate, and self-explanatory description of archival materials and ...

Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts ... - ALA Store

In Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, Dennis Meissner provides a solid foundation in the history, theory, and standards supporting arrangement ...

DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)

DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard): Standard approved by the Society of American Archivists for describing archival collections.

Book Review: Describing Archives - A Content Standard

Overall, Describing Archives is an excellent and much-needed addition to the continuum of description standards for archival materials. It is inevitable that as ...

Catalog Record: Describing archives : a content standard

Describing archives : a content standard. ; Language(s): English ; Published: Chicago : Society of American Archivists, c2004. ; Subjects: Cataloging of archival ...

Dennis Meissner. Arranging and Describing Archives and ...

Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts by Dennis Meissner—a book from the Society of American Archivists' “Archival Fundamentals Series III”—serves ...

Describing archives : a content standard | WorldCat.org

A product of the CUSTARD project (Canadian-U.S. Task Force on Archival Description), and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Describing ...

Describing Archives: A Content Standard - SAA: 9781931666596

Describing Archives: A Content Standard by SAA - ISBN 10: 1931666598 - ISBN 13: 9781931666596 - SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS - 2013 - Softcover.

Describing archives : a content standard. - SIRIS

Supersedes: Archives, personal papers, and manuscripts : a cataloging manual for archival repositories, historical societies, and manuscript libraries ...

Archival Processing: Description - Guides @ UF - University of Florida

Overview. Archival collections are described at the collection, series, subseries, folder (folder titles only), and/or item levels, with ...

Describing archives : a content standard. - Libraries Search

Describing archives : a content standard.-book.

Understanding Archives - Archival Research

DACS is an output-neutral set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections, and can be applied to all ...