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UM-3.5 Data entry: description control area
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Description control area
The "Description control area" is the same for archival descriptions, authority records, and archival institutions. The ICA standards each have a control area, but it varies across the standards; ICA-AtoM implements it consistently across each record type.
1. Description identifier: ISIAH 5.6.1
- Enter the unique identifier of the archival institution record.
2. Institution identifier: ISIAH 5.6.2
- Enter the name or institution code of the body repsonsible for creating and maintaining the institution record.
3. Rules or conventions: ISIAH 5.6.3
- Text field.
4. Status and Level of detail: ISIAH 5.6.4 and ISIAH 5.6.5
- Select status and level of detail of institution record from drop-down lists.
- ICA-AtoM ships with default lists ("Draft, Final, Revised, Deleted" for status; and "Minimal, Partial, Full" for level of detail); Administrators can customize to institution's own standards.
5. Language and scripts: ISIAH 5.6.7
- Select language and script of the institution record from the drop-down lists; Administrators can customize lists to institution's own requirements.
6. Sources: ISIAH 5.6.8
- Text field.
7. Notes: ISIAH 5.6.6 and ISIAH 5.6.9
- Multi-value field displaying notes.
- Use this field to register dates of creation, revisions, deletion.
- Enter the text of the note, select the type of note, click the green to register.
- To delete an existing note, click the red beside it.
8. Created / Updated:
- Auto-entered time-stamps (date and time) record was created and last modified.