Australian Series System

The Australian Series System is an archival control or metadata system, used primarily to describe records in the custody of archival institutions.

It was developed at the Australian Archives in the 1960s and forms the basis for the Australian Society of Archivists' committee on descriptive standards guide ″Describing archives in context″.[1][2][3] It is noted for its separation of data about record-keeping and context[4], by structuring an archive's organisation through individually describing separate "Context entities" for:

  • Records (the bunch of documents);
  • Agents (the persons or organisations that create and manage the Records); and/or,
  • Functional Provenance (the business the Agents do).

In this the traditional Respect des fonds and original order are both incorporated and extended, particularly useful where an original function is maintained by differing agents through time[5].

References

  1. ↑ Clive Smith (1995), The Australian Series System, Association of Canadian Archivists, retrieved 30 September 2016
  2. ↑ Hurley, Chris (1994). "The Australian ('Series') System: An Exposition". Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Australian Society of Archvists Committee on descriptive standards (2004). Describing archives in context: a guide to Australasian practice.
  4. ↑ Hurley, Chris (2008), What, if anything, is the Australian "Series" System?, Chris Hurley, retrieved 30 September 2016
  5. ↑ Bettington, Jackie et al., eds. (2008). Keeping Archives 3rd Edition. Australian Society of Archivists Inc.


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