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May 18 – 21, 2006

Sorry, the Symposium has been cancelled!

Special Pre-Conference Symposium

May 17, 2006
Designed and administered by the Society of American Archivists

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
(One Day; 0.75 CEU; 5 Archival Recertification Credits)
Practical DACS Implementations - get an in-depth, practical consideration of the key concepts and descriptive elements in Describing Archives: A Content standard, the new U.S. standard. Explore strategies for incorporating this standard into workflows for accessioning, arrangement, and description through discussions and hands-on work with a variety of case studies. This workshop focuses on application of DACS rules and concepts to repository processes and print-based descriptive outputs, serving as a basic introduction to the standard. This workshop does not address outputting a DACS-based description to MARC21 or EAD, but will provide the basic preparation for workshops focused on those output standards.

Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

  • Apply the rules to formulate the content of descriptive elements for a minimal standardized description;
  • Understand the different application of DACS in single- and multi-level descriptive outputs;
  • Integrate DACS into basic repository processes such as accessioning, arrangement, and description;
  • Articulate how integration of a content standard into basic repository processes facilitates reuse of information in a variety of outputs.

Workshop fee includes the new SAA publication Describing Archives: A Content Standard.

Who should attend?
Anyone whose work includes accessioning, arranging and describing, or supervising employees who do that work.

Instructor: Bill Landis
Bill Landis is a metadata coordinator for the California Digital Library, an academic services unit of the University of California Office of the President.

Registration
Fees for this symposium are not covered by registration for the GLBT ALMS Conference.
Registration fees are as follows:
Before March 15 - $185 (SAA members) and $225 (nonmembers)
After March 15 - $235 (members) and $275 (nonmembers) To register, visit the website of the Society of American Archivists at here