The International Council on Archives (ICA) appointed the Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) in late 2012. ICA charged this group with developing a conceptual model for archival description that will reconcile and integrate the four existing ICA descriptive standards. The EGAD will build on more than twenty years of ICA standards development, national or project-based modeling work in the archival community, and the modeling work of allied professional communities. This work will have as its core objective developing a conceptual model that reflects an international professional consensus and that positions the archival community to take full advantage of opportunities presented by current and emerging communication technologies, including the opportunities to work cooperatively within and without the archival community in a shared quest to provide enhanced access to and understanding of the human record.© Gretchen Gueguen, Vitor Manoel Marques da Fonseca, Daniel V. Pitti, and Claire Sibille-de Grimoüard.

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Many organizations have evolved since their early attempts to mount digital exhibits on the web and are experimenting with ways to increase the scale of their digitized collections by utilizing archival finding aid description rather than resource-intensive collections and exhibits. This paper examines usability research to predict how such systems might effectively be used and highlights a digital library and finding aid system that utilizes a single repository of digitized objects to fuel two types of user-discovery systems: a typical digital collections interface with item-level access and a finding aid that incorporates digitized items at the aggregate level.3

Recent literature has emphasized the digitization of unique materials. This paper will examine the experience of the University of Maryland Libraries as it embarked on a program to harness existing workflows for digitization and create more systematic methods for digital capture of unique collections using existing organizational resources.

ResumenEl Consejo Internacional de Archivos (ICA) designó al Grupo de Expertos en Descripción Archivística (EGAD) a finales de 2012. El ICA encargó a este grupo el desarrollo de un modelo conceptual para la descripción archivística que conciliara e integrara las cuatro normas descriptivas existentes en el ICA. El EGAD aprovechará los más de veinte años de desarrollo de normas del ICA, nacionales o de modelos de trabajo basados en proyectos de la comunidad archivística, y el trabajo de modelos de comunidades profesionales afines. Este trabajo tendrá como objetivo principal el desarrollo de un modelo conceptual que refleje un consenso profesional internacional y de las posiciones de la comunidad archivística, para aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades que ofrecen las actuales y emergentes tecnologías de comunicación, incluyendo las oportunidades para trabajar conjuntamente dentro y fuera de la comunidad archivística en una búsqueda compartida para proporcionar mayor acceso y comprensión de los documentos humanos. Palabras clave Documentos de archivo; Descripción; Tecnología Towards a Conceptual Model of International Archival Description : A preliminary report Expert Group o AbstractThe International Council on Archives (ICA) appointed the Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) in late 2012. ICA charged this group with developing a conceptual model for archival description that will reconcile and integrate the four existing ICA descriptive standards. The EGAD will build on more than twenty years of ICA standards development, national or project-based modeling work in the archival community, and the modeling work of allied professional communities. This work will have as its core objective developing a conceptual model that reflects an international professional consensus and that positions the archival community to take full advantage of opportunities presented by current and emerging communication technologies, including the opportunities to work cooperatively within and without the archival community in a shared quest to provide enhanced access to and understanding of the human record.