Canadian Council of Archives

REPORTS / DISCUSSION PAPERS

Consultation on a revised version of RAD

January 2008

Dear colleagues:

The Canadian Committee on Archival Description (CCAD) of the Canadian Council of Archives over the past year has revised RAD/RDDA as recommended by the Council in the addendum to the report Toward a Second Edition of RAD: A Report, www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/archdesreport.html. As you may recall Toward a Second Edition of RAD: A Report is the result of the analysis and interpretation of two community consultation regarding the draft standard RAD2.

The Canadian Committee on Archival Description would ask the archival community to please take this opportunity to review the new draft of the revised standard available here online and forward any comments before March 14, 2008 to Micheline Dupont, 130 Albert Street, Room 501, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5G4, Telephone: (613) 565-1222, mdupont@archivescanada.ca.

Sharry Watson
Canadian Committee on Archival Description Chair

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