[DCRM-L] Fwd: Re: DACS and APPM

Wed May 11 07:36:30 MDT 2005

"DA:CS" would be a perfect nuisance in the electronic environment, which
favors unambiguous (and intuitive) search strings. You have to search
for "dacs or 'da:cs'" (and in many systems add "or 'da cs'") to get at
it, and you have to know that going in. On the other hand, "DACS" is
also what one generally sees on the SAA website (e.g. in the titles of
their upcoming workshops), so we can hope it's a non-issue. I sure hope
so.*

More important than that is whether DACS, or whatever, will be made
available sooner than later via Cataloger's Desktop. The SAA site
contains only one reference to this possibility, in the minutes of the
Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards at SAA annual last
August

http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/tsds/2004_tsds_minutes.pdf

"There are also tentative plans to publish an HTML and Cataloger's
Desktop CD-ROM version (although there are some licensing and royalty
issues to work out). ... DA:CS [alas] is in the process of being
approved by SAA Council; institutions are encouraged to use 'dacs'
[N.B.--this is how people will think of it] in the MARC 040 $e as soon
as they implement DA:CS (i.e. don't use 'appm')."

In the meantime, I'm inclined to stall on implementation until SAA get
their act together: this is something they should have anticipated and
dealt with long before they up and withdrew Hensen from CD, unless
they're simply trying to pump up sales of the print version. Do I share
this feeling with others in the "cataloging community"? (This is a
different case from that of the ACRL/RBMS thesauri, which were published
long before we became so dependent on online documentation, and also
involve technical issues, not just licensing and royalties.)

*Search results on the SAA website (11 May 2005): "dacs" - 23 documents;
"da cs" - nil; "da:cs" - 3 documents (TSDS agenda, minutes, and annual
report; thus you need to know about "da:cs" in order to find these key
documents, though it happens that the minutes are retrieved via "dacs"
because of reference to the 040 $e siglum)

RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN
UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-2093 :
RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU

-----Original Message-----
From: dcrm-l-admin at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-admin at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
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Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] Fwd: Re: DACS and APPM

What I find most interesting about this post is that the SAA president
uses "DACS" while our SAA liaison pro tempore told us specifically that
it was "DA:CS." 

_________________________________
Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
Head of Cataloging
Folger Shakespeare Library
djleslie at folger.edu
http://www.folger.edu

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Subject: [DCRM-L] Fwd: Re: DACS and APPM

FYI

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The SAA President himself has spoken . . . .

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Colleagues,

As an official SAA standard, DACS has already replaced APPM. Council
voted in February to approve DACS as the professional standard for
archival descriptive content. Each archival repository should begin the
transition to the new guidelines as soon as feasible. Compliance with
the new standard is, of course voluntary, and there will be no archival
cataloging police to enforce it. Those repositories participating in
network systems or utilities such as OCLC or RLIN should seek guidance
from the network administrators.

Rand Jimerson

SAA President

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Subject: DACS and APPM

When is DACS scheduled to replace APPM? Is there a firm date for
transition to DACS?

Thank you,
Cathy Sarli

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