Principles and Practices in Archival Description.

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Explores the theory and practice of archival description, with a focus on both traditional and contemporarily expanding notions of description. Includes descriptive activities across the life of archival collections, at the levels of accession, finding aid creation, descriptive media titling, digital collection metadata, tagging, and reviews of US standards, such as LOC subject headings and DACS. Introductions to archival description software, within an experimental sandbox setting, is included in this course.