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Standards for archival description
Project standards
Paradigm used the in-house cataloguing manuals produced by the Bodleian Library and the John Rylands University Library as a starting point for thinking about descriptive practices for hybrid archives. Both institutions support the use of international standards to ensure the production of high quality digitial finding aids, which can be cross searched using standardised access points for subjects, places and names. Paradigm adopted the following descriptive cataloguing standards:
- ISAD(G)2: General Standards Archival Description 2nd Edition.
- EAD: Encoded Archival Description.
- LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings.
- NCA Rules: National Council on archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (1997).
