Describing Archives in Context: Peter J Scott and the Australian ‘Series’ System

Adrian Cunningham ()
Additional contact information
Adrian Cunningham: Queensland State Archives

A chapter in Building Trust in Information, 2016, pp 49-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During the 1960s Peter J Scott and colleagues at the then Commonwealth Archives Office (now National Archives of Australia) devised a new approach to archival intellectual control, which separated descriptive information about the creators of records from information about the records themselves. This paper provides an overview of the major features of Scott’s system, placing it in its historical context and exploring its impact on the development of international archival descriptive standards.

Keywords: Archival description; Australia; Multiple provenance; Series system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-40226-0_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319402260

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40226-0_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().