Descriptive standards
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Supported descriptive standards
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ICA-AtoM is designed around the ICA's international descriptive standards. The system, however, can accommodate other descriptive practices and standards. These currently include:
- The Canadian Council of Archives' Rules for Archival Description (RAD).
Other standards that may be supported in future iterations included:
"Support" for another standard means that users of ICA-AtoM should be able to:
- Enter data in fields that represent all of the data elements required by the standard.
- Interact with (view, edit, search) data structured by and labelled according to the terms of the standard.
- Output data (print, export) data in formats compliant with the standard.
Adding support for a standard requires a system developer working on the underlying software code. Once support has been added, however,
Once support for a standard has been added,