Workshop Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) #0965

Want practical strategies for implementing DACS? This is the introductory workshop for you!
Get an in-depth, practical consideration of the key concepts and descriptive elements in Describing Archives: A Content Standard , the U.S. standard. Explore strategies for incorporating this standard into workflows for accessioning, arrangement, and description through discussions and hands-on work with a variety of exercises, culminating in a DACS-based analysis of existing finding aids. This workshop, a basic introduction to the standard, focuses on application of DACS rules and concepts, which participants can apply to repository processes and descriptive outputs.
Upon completion of this workshop you'll be able to:
Apply the rules to formulate the content of descriptive elements for a minimal standardized description;
Understand the different application of DACS in single- and multi-level descriptive outputs;
Integrate DACS into basic repository processes such as accessioning, arrangement, and description;
Articulate how integration of a content standard into basic repository processes facilitates reuse of information in a variety of outputs.
*Workshop fee includes the SAA publication, http://saa.archivists.org/