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Article Evaluation
For INST604, I will be evaluating and making edits to Rules for Archival Description. Here is where I will leave any notes of observations and learnings. billy frederick 21:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Critiquing an Article
The article I choose to critique for INST201 is Dial-up Internet access, which is a sub-category under the Internet Access category. Critique to follow shortly.

Article editing in process, taken from Rules for Archival Description
The Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is the Canadian archival descriptive standard. It is overseen by the Canadian Committee on Archival Description of the Canadian Council of Archives. Similar in structure to AACR2, it was last revised in 2008.

Description

RAD provides archivists with a framework for generating archival descriptions and finding aids. It is a multi-level descriptive standard structured to reflect the context of a group of records based on manner in which they were created, used and managed.

RAD takes a top-down approach to archival description beginning with a general description of the records at the fonds-level and becoming more specific as description progresses at lower levels. The six levels of RAD descriptions are the fonds, sous-fonds, series, sub-series, file and item. Completed descriptions vary in depth but often include a biographical sketch about the creator of the records, information about the physical extent of the material, and an overview, in the form of a scope and content note, about what the archival fonds consists of.

billy frederick 21:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Levels of Description
RAD designates six levels of description, which are arranged in a hierarchical nature. The fonds represents the broadest level of description and the top of the hierarchical tree, and the item representing the lowest level of description. The six levels of description detailed in RAD, as explained by the Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists (SCAA) are:


 * 1) The fonds: The broadest intellectual unit of description, which is the collective of all records created by a single entity.
 * 2) The sous-fonds: Described in the same manner as the fonds. The sous-fonds contains all records of a sub-unit of the organization that created the fonds.
 * 3) The series: A group of records within a fonds or sous-fonds, which are created or gathered from the same subject, entity, or function, all sharing some relationship that is related to their creation or usage. The series is the link between the records created with the fonds.
 * 4) The sub-series: Described in the same manner as the series. A sub-series contains records within a series that are easily identified as being dependent on the basis of classification or content.
 * 5) The file consists of documents that were filed together in order to reflect the same subject or activity, along with containing the same title. A file is not to be confused with a folder, which is considered a document storage unit, while the file is an intellectual level of description. A single file may contain any undisclosed number of folders.
 * 6) The item is the lowest level of description, and the smallest intellectual entity contained in a fonds. The item is also intellectual unit, and as a result may hold a number of individual things.