Appendix B Companion Standards

As indicated in the Overview, DACS includes basic rules for the types of holdings found in many archives, but they do not include all the rules needed to describe every possible type of document. Where further guidance is required, the following standards provide more detailed rules for describing published materials and particular types of nontextual materials. For the most comprehensive and up-to-date listing of standards, see the Society of American Archivists’ Standards Portal: http://www2.archivists.org/standards.

Content Standards

Architectural Materials

Lowell, Waverly B., and Tawny Ryan Nelb. Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.

Porter, Vicki, and Robin Thornes. A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994, on behalf of the Getty Art History Information Program. http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/fda/index.html.

Cartographic Materials

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmc/.

Datasets

Federal Geographic Data Committee. FCDC-STD-001-1998. Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (revised June 1998). Washington, DC: Federal Geographic Data Committee, 1998. http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/csdgm.

Graphic Materials

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmg/.

Manuscripts

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmmss/.

Pass, Gregory A. Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004. http://rbms.info/dcrm/amremm/.

Moving Image Materials and Sound Recordings

AMIM Revision Committee, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Archival Moving Image Materials: A Cataloging Manual. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000.

The FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual. International Federation of Film Archives. http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Cataloguing-Manual.html.

The IASA Cataloguing Rules: A Manual for the Description of Sound Recordings and Related Audiovisual Media. Stockholm: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, 1999. http://www.iasa-web.org/icat/icat001.htm.

Matters, Marion, comp. Oral History Cataloging Manual. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1995.

Music

Archival Description of Notated Music: A Supplement to Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Music Library Association. Forthcoming.

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmm/.

Objects

Baca, Murtha, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, and Ann Whiteside, on behalf of the Visual Resources Association. Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. http://cco.vrafoundation.org/.

Published Materials                                             

RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA Steering Committee. http://rda-rsc.org/.

Rare Books

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmb/.

Rare Serials

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials). Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. http://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrms/.

Data Structure Standards

Categories for the Description of Works of Art. J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Vocabulary Program. http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/index.html.

Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.

Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families. Society of American Archivists, Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards. http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/.

Encoded Archival Description. Society of American Archivists, Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards. http://www.loc.gov/ead/index.html.

MARC 21. Library of Congress, Network Development & MARC Standards Office. http://www.loc.gov/marc/.

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. Library of Congress, Network Development & MARC Standards Office. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/.

Metadata Object Description Schema. Library of Congress, Network Development & MARC Standards Office. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/.

Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/.

VRA Core. Visual Resources Association. http://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/.

## Data Value Standards/Thesauri

Art & Architecture Thesaurus. J. Paul Getty Trust. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/index.html.

Dictionary of Occupational Titles. 4th ed., rev. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Employment Service, 1991. http://www.occupationalinfo.org.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. J. Paul Getty Trust. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html.

Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress. http://authorities.loc.gov/. This resources covers the following authorities:

  • LC Subject Headings
  • LC Name Authority File
  • LC Title Authority File

Library of Congress Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies. Library of Congress. http://id.loc.gov/. This resource covers the following authorities:

  • LC Subject Headings
  • LC Name Authority File
  • LC Classification
  • LC Children’s Subject Headings
  • LC Genre/Form Terms
  • LC Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music
  • LC Demographic Group Terms
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
  • AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus
  • Cultural Heritage Organizations
  • MARC Relators
  • MARC Countries
  • MARC Geographic Areas
  • MARC Languages
  • MARC Genre Terms
  • ISO639-1 Languages
  • ISO639-2 Languages
  • ISO639-5 Languages
  • Extended Date/Time Format

Medical Subject Headings. National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.

Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging. American Association for State and Local History. http://community.aaslh.org/nomenclature/.

Taves, Brian, Judi Hoffman, and Karen Lund, comps. The Moving Image Genre-form Guide. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, 1998. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/migintro.html.

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/.

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristics Terms. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/.

UNESCO Thesaurus. UNESCO. http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus.

Union List of Artists’ Names. J. Paul Getty Trust. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html.