DACS Principles Implementation Project Community Questionnaire

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SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: a Content Standard (TS-DACS) has begun a systematic evaluation of how the standard may better reflect the new Statement of Principles (https://tinyurl.com/3ma434wu) adopted in 2019. The goal of this effort is to assist in the creation and maintenance of finding aids that reflect our ethics and values, and better serve the users of archival description.

As the standard is maintained on GitHub, TS-DACS will soon be posting issues and pull requests there to begin a transparent and interactive dialogue about potential changes. We also invite the broader archival community to participate in this process by filling out this questionnaire, or by posting their own issues or pull requests at Github (https://tinyurl.com/266sy7kw). Multiple submissions from individuals or groups are welcome.

Please describe your idea for how DACS could be revised or expanded upon to better reflect the new DACS Statement of Principles. *

How would you classify your idea? *

A revision to an existing DACS rule or chapter

The creation and addition of a new DACS rule or chapter

Other:

Which of the principles does your idea reflect? (check all that apply)

Principle 1: Archival description expresses professional ethics and values.

Principle 2: Users are the fundamental reason for archival description.

Principle 3: Because archival description privileges intellectual content in context, descriptive rules apply equally to all records, regardless of format or carrier type.

Principle 4: Records, agents, activities, and the relationships between them are the four fundamental concepts that constitute archival description.

Principle 5: Archival description must be clear about what archivists know, what they don’t know, and how they know it.

Principle 6: Archivists must document and make discoverable the actions they take on records.

Principle 7: Archival description is accessible.

Principle 8: Archival description should be easy to use, re-use, and share.

Principle 9: Each collection within a repository must have an archival description.

Principle 10: Archivists must have a user-driven reason to enhance existing archival description.

Principle 11: Archival description is a continuous intellectual endeavor.

Contact Information. If you feel comfortable doing so, please share your name and email address. Members of TS-DACS may wish to contact you to ask questions and/or discuss your idea. Additionally, we want to make sure that proper credit is given for any ideas that may be incorporated in future DACS revisions.

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