At 10:04 AM 6/22/2006 -0500, Leon Miller wrote: > DACS practices that conflict with archival practices outside the US? Read RAD (Rules for Archival Description, Canada http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/archdesrules.html). Conceptually, the documents are very, very different. RAD is much more prescriptive and gives rules for a variety of scenarios. DACS is generally non-prescriptive, non-proscriptive and does not go much into specifics for formats or other cases where rules might vary. If you read the preface of DACS, it says that within a DACS description you can use other standards, including local policies (forgive me for not citing the page). This idea of incorporation without specifics makes DACS highly unlike any other standard of its kind. If you do not incorporate some other standard within a DACS description, if you take the DACS rules literally, then DACS conflicts with just about every other cataloging standard, including those used within the US, by never instructing one to transcribe a formal title if there is one. This is in conflict with RAD (mentioned above), MAD (Manual of Archival Description, Great Britain), CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects), AMIM (Archival Moving Image Material : a cataloging manual), and AACR2. Kate Kate Bowers Collection Services Archivist Harvard University Archives Cambridge, MA 02138 voice: (617) 495-2461 fax: (617) 495-8011 email: [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>