Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) is a set of rules for describing archives, personal papers, and manuscript collections. The descriptive standard can be utilized for all types of archival material. In 2004, DACS was adopted by the Society of American Archivists as an official SAA standard.[1]
Relation to other standards
Upon adoption by SAA, DACS superseded the former standard for archival material, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts (APPM). It has now been widely adopted by the archival community throughout the United States. Also, DACS expands on the basic rules for describing archival material that are found in chapter 4 of the cataloging standard, AACR2. DACS also provides crosswalks from DACS to MARC and Encoded Archival Description (EAD). DACS specifies only the type of content, not the structural or encoding requirements or the actual verbiage to be used; it is therefore suitable for use in conjunction with structural and encoding standards such as MARC and EAD and with controlled vocabularies such as MeSH, LCSH, AAT, and so on.
It should also be noted that DACS is the US implementation of international archival descriptive standards such as ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF).
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