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SAA Received NEH Grant in Support of EAD



The Society of American Archivists, in collaboration with the Canadian
Council of Archives, is pleased to announce that it has received funding
from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the process of
reconciling the two principal North American standards for archival
description with each other and with a broader international standard. The
anticipated final product of this project will be a manual of archival
description which reconciles APPM (Archives, Personal Papers and
Manuscripts) and RAD (Rules for Archival Description) within the structure
of ISAD(G) (General International Standard Archival Description). 

It is expected that the resulting standard will also form the basis of a
content standard for EAD, as well as laying the foundation for the
development of broader and more comprehensive international standards.  Such
standards will contribute significantly to more consistent description of
archival holdings in repositories around the world, while at the same time
greatly enhancing user access to these holdings.

The production of this Canadian/U.S. Manual of Archival Description will be
a joint effort of the Society of American Archivists and the Canadian
Council on Archives. The main part of this project will take place between
July 2001 and June 2002, with the first meeting of four meetings planned for
Toronto in July. The work will be accomplished through the efforts of a
Steering Committee, an Editor/Project Manager, and an editorial and
consultative group, designated as the Canadian/U.S. Task Force on Archival
Description (CUSTARD).  The Steering Committee will consist of the Chair of
the SAA Descriptive Standards Committee (Kris Kiesling), the Chair of the
Canadian Committee on Archival Description (Bob Krawczyk), Steven Hensen
(author of APPM) and Kent Haworth (former Chair of the Bureau of Canadian
Archivists Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards).  

Jean Dryden will be the Editor and Project Manager, working under the
direction of the Steering Committee.  She will be responsible for much of
the work of creating the new content standard by preparing drafts for
discussion and review, incorporating comments, and preparing revised drafts
as the harmonized standard takes shape. 

The task force will consist of six representatives from the U.S. and six
representatives from Canada. The US membership will consist of two members
of the SAA Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (Roslyn Holdzkom
and Bill Landis); the chair of the SAA Standards Committee (Kris Kiesling);
the SAA representative to MARBI, CC:DA, and the ICA Committee on Descriptive
Standards (Michael Fox); a representative from the National Archives and
Records Administration (Lydia Reid); and a representative from the Library
of Congress (Margit Kerwin). The Canadian representatives will be the
current members of the Canadian Committee on Archival Description: Gerald
Stone, Mario Robert, Marlene van Ballegooie, Lucie Pagé, Tim Hutchinson and
a new member.  The project director, who will have general responsibility
for oversight and management of the entire project will be Susan Fox,
Executive Director of the Society of American Archivists.

SAA members will have an opportunity to learn more about this project at the
Annual Meeting in Washington. Steve Hensen, Bob Krawczyk and Jean Dryden
will participate in a session on September 1st entitled "Dancing the
Continental:  Harmonizing Data Content Standards for Archival Description". 

Bob Krawczyk and Jean Dryden will present a similar session at the ACA
Annual Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba in early June. 
 


Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells St.
Chicago, IL  60607
312-922-0140
mobile:  312-617-7015
E-Fax 801-720-0078
sfox@archivists.org
www.archivists.org

Join us for our 65th Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C. Hilton & Towers
August 30 - September 2, 2001

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