Other Standards

 

The Archives Hub strives to use the most appropriate standards for the structuring and dissemination of content.

International Archival Standards

There are four standards maintained by the International Council on Archives:

ISAD(G): International Standard Archival Description (General)

Used by the Hub contributors when creating descriptions

ISAAR(CPF): International Standard for Archival Authority Records (Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families)

Used for the creation of authority records. The Hub does not yet store authority records.

Encoded Archival Description (Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families) (EAC-CPF) provides a schema to markup ISAAR(CPF) records.

ISDF: International Standard for Describing Functions

The Hub provides for adding functions as index terms. However, the archives community does not have a recognised vocabulary for functions.

ISDIAH: International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

The Hub links to Archon, the directory of archives provided by The National Archives. We are not intending to hold contact details within the Hub, as it makes more sense to use a shared directory.

Records in Context

A standard comprising a number of parts:

(i) RiC An Introduction is a brief introduction to the principles and purpose of archival description. It refers to the history of recordkeeping, the characteristics of records, provenance and description.   
(ii) RiC Conceptual Model is a new conceptual model that focuses on intellectually identifying and describing records, the agents that created and used them, and the activities pursued by the agents, that the records both facilitate and document.
(iii) RiC Ontology is an OWL ontology for describing archival record resources and their contextual entities