DACS 2004.0.2

This version of DACS includes an index, which was previously not a feature of the document.

DACS 2004.0.1

This update of DACS adds an endorsement by the SAA.

DACS 2004

This is the original version of DACS, first released in 2004.

DACS 2019.0.1

• Files have been renamed so they will order correctly when using the bash find to cat commands. This makes it one command to combine all the markdown, and a second to reformat in html, pdf, etc.

• Adds tables of contents with relative links at the top, and for each chapter based on the 2nd edition PDF.

DACS 2019

This update changes the Preface and the Statement of Principles in order to better align both with current archival theory and practice as well as the International Council on Archives (ICA) draft data model for archival description, Records in Contexts (RiC).2 The preface revision is not hugely substantive but rather a reorganization and update of existing information. The revision to the Statement of Principles is total.

There are two primary and equally important justifications for the revisions. First, the revision is proposed following a deep analysis of the current Statement of Principles (hereafter referred to as current principles) and the extent to which it represents archival values, theory and practice, and is teachable and clear. Second is the release of Records in Contexts and the desire by the technical subcommittee to bring DACS in better alignment with its underlying concepts and structure and, in turn, current archival theory that undergirds RiC.

For more information, read the full proposal here: #20