Canadian Committee on Archival Description

CCA - Canadian Committee on Archival Description

Mainly responsible for the maintenance and revision of the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) this CCA Committee is also involved in other areas surrounding archival description. This section gives you direct access to RAD and provides you the rules revision published once a year by CCAD. List of committee members, reports and discussion papers are also included within this section.

MEMBERS

Mr. Richard Dancy Chairperson radancy@sfu.ca	Ms. Heather MacNeil (Advisor) h.macneil@utoronto.ca
Mr. François Cartier (AAQ Representative) francoisarchiviste@gmail.com	Ms. Lisa Snider (ACA Representative) info@everythingarchives.com
Mr. Raymond Frogner (CCA Board Liaison) Raymond.Frogner@umanitoba.ca	Vacant (LAC Representative)

MANDATE STATEMENT AND TERMS OF REFERENCE

REPORTS / DISCUSSION PAPERS

National Meeting 2016 on the Future of RAD	February 2016
Consultation on a revised version of RAD	January 2008
Towards a Second Edition of RAD - Addendum & Final Report	April 2006

LINKS

Links with other international committees
International Council on Archives – Standards and Tools
International Council of Archives Committee on Best Practices and Standards
International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards
Society of American archivists Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards (TSDS)
Society of American Archivists DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) Working Group
Society of American Archivists Description Section

Document Type Definition
EAD (Encoded Archival Description)	Encoded Archival Description - Changes to EAD and implications for RAD implementations
	RAD/EAD Crosswalk
	Official Website of EAD
EAC (Encoded Archival Context)	EAC-CPF Homepage