The Canadian‐US Task Force on Archival Description (CUSTARD) has undertaken the process of reconciling the two principal North American standards for archival description – the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) and the US’ Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts (APPM) – with each other and with the broader international standard of ISAD(G) (General International Standard Archival Description). The anticipated final product of the CUSTARD project will be a new standard for rules governing description of archival holdings. The first tangible product is a “statement of principles” concerning archival description, which will guide the final development of descriptive rules. A complete draft of the CUSTARD rules should be available for review by June 2003, with publication expected in 2004. The new standard being developed will guide the future of archival description.
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Randall C. Jimerson
Randall C. Jimerson
Randall C. Jimerson is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in Archives and Records Management at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1694
Print ISSN: 1065-075X
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2002
OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives (2002) 18 (4): 173–177.
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Jimerson RC (2002), "Saving room for CUSTARD". OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 18 No. 4 pp. 173–177, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750210450103
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