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Appendix A - Society of American Archivists

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chapter, but I think yourterminology needs to beconsistent with that in Chapter 1or it will cause confusion.Chapter 1 usesMinimum/Optimum/AddedValue. You seem to be usingRequired/Optimum/AddedValue. I'd suggest changing themone place or the other so thatthey're parallel. I have noobjection to just going withRequired. Everyone in DACSworkshops seems to understandMinimum as Required anyway.Use <strong>of</strong> labels in thetext <strong>of</strong> examplesthroughout Part IIAwful! You need to do somethinggraphically to indicate that thelabels aren't part <strong>of</strong> the example<strong>of</strong> what should go into the datacontent based on the rule beingillustrated. I'm not sure I get whyyou would even include textuallabels, since encoding authorityfiles in the 21 st century seems tome to assume some kind <strong>of</strong> datacapture in a data structure otherthan print.editorialChange madeGenerally, I think thepresentation <strong>of</strong> Chapter 9 needssome work. The number <strong>of</strong> rulesis exhausting, and most archivistswill have no referent forunderstanding this atomizedview <strong>of</strong> the data content <strong>of</strong> anarchival authority record. Is thereany way to group themmeaningfully and perhapsprovide encoded examples <strong>of</strong> thatchunk or grouping <strong>of</strong> rules? I'dhate to see the importance <strong>of</strong>finally having an ISAAR-baseddata content standard forAuthority recordssection broken intomultiple chaptersAction: DACS Revision Page 87 <strong>of</strong> 158 0113-II-A-DACS

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