Terminology and Standards

Level of description:
Fonds (all the archives created by, or collected by, a person, family or corporate body)

Data structure:
ISAD(G) 2nd edition 1999 (available in English and Welsh) with local fields added

Subject headings:
Library of Congress Subject Headings
LCSH examples (Word document, 20k)
LCSH mapping - Denbighshire Record Office Subject Index (Word document, 190k)
LCSH mapping - Gwynedd Archives Service Subject Index (Word document, 505k)
LCSH mapping - Pembrokeshire Record Office Subject Index (Word document, 705k)
LCSH mapping - West Glamorgan Archive Service Subject Index (Word document, 318k)

Personal, place and corporate names:
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (Second Edition) (AACR2);
National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997;
and ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition 2004 (available in English and Welsh).
NCA Rules 1997: web version | NCA Rules 1997: pdf version (753kb)

[ANW guidelines for fonds-level descriptions v.3.0 (December 2004) (556kb)] [Example descriptions (44kb) ]
[Summary of changes in v.3.0 (December 2004) (15kb)]