To be discussed at the Online Forum on March 22, 2022! Please click here for the specific discussion points on this draft.
Current Tiers of Support for Descriptive Standards as of 2022
1st tier: DACS, ISAAR (CPF), ISAD(G)
2nd tier: AACR2, RDA
3rd tier: Wikidata
Current Tiers of Support for Transmission Standards as of 2022
1st tier: EAD2002, MARC, EAC-CPF, and DACS
2nd tier: Dublin Core, EAD3, METS, MODS, Schema.org (PUI only)
3rd tier: EAD4
Current Tiers of Support for Hybrid Standards as of 2022
1st tier:
2nd tier:
3rd tier: Wikidata, Records in Context (RiC), EAD4
Who defines these tiers of support?
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While the Metadata Standards Sub-team takes these Tiers of Support into consideration while making decisions and advocating for standards on behalf of the community, the Sub-team itself is not responsible for the code that supports these standards and is not primarily responsible for the prioritization of of feature requests and bug reports (see the Development Prioritization Sub-team). Ultimately the ArchivesSpace Roadmap reflects the current and projected development priorities for the application.
Acknowledgment of US-Centric Standards
Most of the support for standards in ArchivesSpace, both descriptive (DACS) and for data transmission (EAD) are US-centric. The Metadata subteam would like to acknowledge that fact as well as acknowledge a lack of non-US representation among the ArchivesSpace user community.
Defining levels of commitment to various standards
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