Archival Processing Documentation: Guides & Standards

Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons, & Families (EAC-CPF)
XML-Schema for the International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
XML-Schema for encoding archival description

Other SAA-Approved Technical Standards

Four Flap Enclosure Tutorial
Sink Mat Tutorials: Pictures | Video | Illustrations
IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material
Image Permanence Institute publications

UB Style Guide
AP Stylebook, customized for UB (on-campus only)
See also AP Stylebook applications for resource record notes.

Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)
The official content standard of the U.S. archival community. DACS is implementation-neutral.

Records in Contexts–Conceptual Model (RiC-CM)
The new ICA standard for describing records, RiC-CM reconciles, integrates, builds on, and replaces the four existing standards: ISAD(G); ISAAR(CPF); ISDF); and ISDIAH.

Records in Contexts-Ontology (RiC-O) is an OWL ontology for describing archival record resources and their contextual entities. A formal representation of RiC-CM, RiC-O provides a generic vocabulary and formal rules for creating RDF datasets (or generating them from existing archival metadata.) 

Library of Congress Authorities See also LC's linked data service.

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

The Getty Research Institute vocabularies:
   Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
   Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
   Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)
   Union List of Artist Names Online (ULAN)

Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Resources
A descriptive standard that offers metadata recommendations to address racist, particularly anti-Black, archival description. Maintained by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group and endorsed by the Society of American Archivists.

Homosaurus
An international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms intended to function as a companion to broad subject term vocabularies, such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender-Diverse Resources
Best practices for the description and classification of trans and gender diverse information resources.

Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
A guide for libraries and archives in engaging in culturally responsive care of Native American archival materials and in providing culturally appropriate service to communities. © First Archivist Circle. Endorsed by the Society of American Archivists.

Editorial Guide for Indigenous Entity Descriptions in SNAC
This editorial guide considers best practices in the field as they apply to the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) but can be adapted for use in creation of entity records, particularly EAC-CPF records, in other platforms. Drafted by Indigenize SNAC (Inverting Colonial Archival Structures: Increasing Discovery and Access for Indigenous Communities through SNAC).

Other SAA-Approved Arrangement & Description Standards

CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (MFA Boston)
Condition Reporting-Paintings: Glossary (Canadian Conservation Institute)
The Materials Information and Technical Resources for Artists (MITRA)
Glass Dictionary (Corning Museum of Glass)
Glossary of Printmaking Terms (International Print Center)
Preservation Glossary (CCAHA)
The Book and Paper Group Glossary of Terms (AIC)
Fine Arts Conservancy Glossary for Works on Paper
Visual Glossary of conservation terms (Museums & Galleries of NSW)