Appendix A - Society of American Archivists

happen in courts. Whether this would be a separately numbered rule, or an extension of a revisedrule - the absence of the rule is worth considering.In our thinking - DACS works well when it considers a minimal descriptive effort (which would apply atthe container level) that will allow separate repositories to electronically 'mash' together an AuthorityRecord where the litigated case is at the center. The EAC / EAD elements that would be involved insuch an effort could benefit from enhanced DACS commentary, examples and rules specifications.Court case records have a 'nexus' organization. They are highly distributed (and duplicated). Thereforethe task of ordering a physical + digital collection (which may be in scattered quadrants) makesseveral enhancement to DACS indispensable.I am on the steering committee of the Government Records section (term 2012-2014), and I am surethere are many within that section who would be interested in helping overcome this professionalchallenge.Thank you for your important work.Our documentChristopher FelkerPage 1 of 17 | 2 August 2012Describing archives a content standardMulti level optimum + added value EAD / EAC descriptionsin the absence of DACS guidanceCase references (DACS 14.23, 14.23A, 14.26)Courts of the United Stateslevel 1 (district / trial + variants) courtsUS federated states (50, 4 formally titled Commonwealths | 94 courts)federal district (1 | 1 of 94 courts)Individual federated states (50, 4 formally titled Commonwealths | 1,912 courts)unincorporated organized territories (4 | 3 of 94 courts)unincorporated unorganized territories (~1 , 11 total)Court of International TradeUnited States Court of Federal Claimsmilitary courts (unified system applicable to the Army, Navy-Marine Corps, Air Force and CoastGuard | 4 courts)military commission (administered by the Department of Defense, Office of the ConveningAuthority, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, MilitaryCommissions Trial Judiciary | Guantánamo Bay Cuba)level 2 (intermediate appeals + variants) courtsUS regional circuits (12)Individual federated states (50, 4 formally titled Commonwealths | 104 courts)United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (worldwide jurisdiction)United States Court of Military Commission Reviewlevel 3 (final appeal) courtsUnited States supreme court (1)Individual federated states (50, 4 formally titled Commonwealths | 58 courts)and all non US jurisdictionsThe UCLA Civil Rights Project (collection 0787) has been processed using localizedarchival description rules for court cases. These rules adhere to a micro-descriptivescheme designed to enhance and further develop new methods and tools to‣ extract and assemble archival authority descriptions‣ enhance methods for matching and combining records describing the same case‣ develop methods for accommodating descriptive data‣ add geographic coordinates to places where court related documents circulate‣ develop timeline or map rendering of chronological biographies or historiesAction: DACS Revision Page 133 of 158 0113-II-A-DACS