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After ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF), the Committee of Best Practices and
Professional Standards of the International Council of Archives
(ICA/CBPS) intended to develop a new international standard providing
guidance for preparing descriptions of functions and activities of
corporate bodies associated with the creation and maintenance of
archives (ISAF: International Standard on Activities/Functions of
Corporate Bodies). Brazil, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Sweden and
Switzerland are currently involved in this project.
Like ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF), the future standard will be available in
English and in French, and it will include about twenty descriptive
elements, organised into information areas. The draft of standard
(http://www.ica.org/index.php?plangue=eng) comprises also two chapters
giving recommendations for establishing links between descriptions of
functions/activities and archival descriptions compliant with ISAD(G) or
with authority records compliant with ISAAR(CPF). The appendix contains
examples of applications in different languages.
Comments can be sent to Claire Sibille, ICA/CBPS secretary
([log in to unmask]). The deadline for the reception of the
comments is: 2007, 31st March. The committee has planned to hold a
meeting in May 2007, in order to integrate the comments received between
January and March 2007 into the text of the standard. The definitive
version of ISAF will be presented in the international congress of
archives at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in 2008. Thereafter, a revision of
ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF) should be engaged during the next four-year
programme 2008-2012. We are at your disposal for any further
information. Thank you in advance for your reactions and comments.
Claire Sibille
Direction des Archives de France
Département de l’innovation technologique et de la normalisation
Bureau du traitement des archives et de l’informatisation
56 rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75141 Paris Cedex 03
tél 01 40 27 60 15
fax 01 40 27 66 36
http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr
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