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LIS 440: Archives Access and Use: Standards

International Council on Archives (ICA)

Describing Archives A Content Standard (DACS)

Note: DACS is also available through Cataloger's Desktop (contact Faculty for login)

Rules for Archival Description (RAD)

Canadian Committee on Archival Description: Rules for Archival Description (RAD)

Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2)

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)

METS Primer and Reference Manual

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)

MODS Official Website (Library of Congress)

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

TEI

Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC)

Library of Congress (LC)

Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Search for abstracts for standards such as 639-2b, 155511, 15924, 8166-1