ISAD(G)

ISAD ( G) is an abbreviation for International Standard Archival Description (General ), so it is an international standard for the use of archival documents distortion.

The International Council on Archives (ICA ), adopted in 2000, ISAD (G ) as an application standard for distortion of archival of corporate bodies, persons and families.

Versions

1988 first international efforts of ICA, starting with the support of UNESCO, 1990 discussion of the draft of the subgroup of AdHoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, 1993/94 first edition, 2000 revision of the 1994 version and the second revised edition of ISAD (G).

Meaning and purpose

Adopted in 2000 and currently valid second, revised edition serves as

  • Guidelines for archival description ( genuine Verzeichnungsstandard ), used in conjunction with existing national standards
  • Instrument for the international exchange of Verzeichnungsinformationen
  • Standard which can be applied irrespective of the shape or the medium

The application of ISAD ( G) enables the management and research of information about the logical units of archival documents about Verzeichnungselemente which are ordered by information areas. Each logical unit is mapped to a Verzeichnungsstufe. The relationships of the logic units to each other is ensured by the connection of the Verzeichnungsstufen another.

This ensures that the distortion

  • Follows uniform, practical and immediately understandable criteria
  • Facilitates the identification and exchange of information about archival
  • Allows exchange of overarching, general information

With the introduction of the possibility to integrate the Verzeichnungsergebnisse various archives of different responsibilities in a standardized information system, the perspective of a global user-oriented services offered by archives, regardless of time and place provides access to uniformly structured information and thus allows a specific overarching research opened.

Thus, the independence of archival work methods are taken into account. The individualization of individual pieces is counteracted and take account of the principle of provenance articulated in the importance of the emergence of relationships and origin purposes. By unifying the improvement of working methods is achieved, which is based on the practice and which will become the basis for the development of national standards.

Relationships

The author / Aktenbildner forms the link between the standards with each other and to the General International Standard for the proper files based management ISO 15489:

  • ISAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF ) guarantee the reliability and authenticity of the documents against the user ( archives management ).
  • The ISO 15489 guarantees the reliability and authenticity in relation to the author / Aktenbildner itself ( business administration).
  • Documents: ISO 15489
  • Competencies: ISAAR (CPF )
  • Author / Aktenbildner: ISAAR (CPF )
  • Archive: ISAD ( G)

The ratio of ISAD (G) and ISAAR (CPF )

The requirement on the part of archivists, both standards should be more interlocking, cumulative, inter alia, in the idea of ​​a complete takeover of ISAAR (CPF ) to ISAD (G). Powerful information systems of the present are modular systems, management and research per module and by connecting the modules together provide about the overall system time. The heading of the author / Aktenbildner is given in ISAD (G ) to ISAAR (CPF ). " The strength and uniqueness of the via access points ascertainable information is improved when names and other elements in standard files recorded and a special term control are subjected. [ ... ] The ISAAR (CPF ) provides general instructions for the installation of archival authority records for describing corporate bodies, persons and families that can be detected as producing the records office " ( ISAD ( G), 2nd revised edition, . E .14 ​​).

ISAD ( G) as an international standard for archival description and the ISAAR (CPF ) as International Standard for convening authority data allow each a systemic use. In combination, the possibilities, diverse, offering structured information through standardization expand. Thus, both standards prove to be versatile archival tools in an extensible information system as a whole, the connection is secured to each other and to their objects.

Source

The article is based - with the permission of the author - on

Bärbel Förster: General International Standard Archival Description 2000 A "new" general international archival Verzeichnungsnorm. ? In: arbido No. 5, 2004, pp. 46-47.

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