Talk:Archival processing

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North American?
I have been bold and removed "... is a term used in the United States of America and Canada" from the lede, first in line with WP:ISAWORDFOR, but more importantly because I don't think the term is particularly North American (or not any more). Here in the UK we'd traditionally have talked about "cataloguing" or "listing", but we'd have no problems with "processing", which encompasses a slightly wider range of activities (i.e. some basic preservation activities). Feel free to disagree. (By the way, yes, we do talk about "cataloguing", although we less frequently refer to the resultant finding aid as a "catalogue". Also, I've left the u in "cataloguing", but I don't feel strongly about it if somebody wants to take it out.) GrindtXX (talk) 20:14, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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Separate Section for Arrangement?
I am working on this article as part of a class and am considering whether to separate out Arrangement as its own section. I might want to expand on the ways of organizing materials if the original order is not apparent (e.g. chronological) and briefly touch on how technology affects the need for physical (re-)arrangement. Are there any objections that come to mind for these changes? -VLBT2468 (talk) 13:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me – presumably incorporating (and where necessary re-working) what currently constitute the final 3 paragraphs of "Surveying"? Be bold. GrindtXX (talk) 14:28, 2 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Exactly - I'd like to pull those last three sentences into a separate section of their own and build on them a bit more. I could add more to the surveying section, such as assessing if the records are at risk in their current status and require conservation work to prevent further damage. I'd like to make it clear that surveying is an observation (seeing what we have without altering it) whereas arrangement is sometimes an activity that changes the collection, sometimes not. VLBT2468 (talk) 14:17, 23 October 2018 (UTC)