Introduction
Sections
Additional Resources
Roe, Kathleen D. Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005
EDISJ & Description
Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia, Anti-Racist Description Resources, 2019.
Brilmyer, Gracen. “Archival Assemblages: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational Model to Archival Description.” Archival Science 18, no. 2 (2018): 95-118.
Douglas, Jennifer. “Toward More Honest Description.” American Archivist 79, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 26-55.
Rinn, Meghan R. "Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P. T. Barnum Digital Collection." Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 5, no.1.
Standards
Society of American Archivists, DACS: Describing Archives a Content Standard
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Authorities & Controlled Vocabularies
Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
Kate Bowers, ed., Thesaurus for Use in College and University Archives (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2009)