Hi all,
TS-DACS is pleased to announce that the DACS versioning project is complete. Since DACS is now in a continuous revision cycle, the new version system and change log will help archivists track their compliance.
Each version of DACS is now written as DACS followed by a series of numbers, for instance the current version is DACS 2019.0.2. The numbers are incremented in accordance to the type of change being made.
· The first number represents the year of a major update to DACS. SAA defines a major change as one that changes the application or interpretation of the standard so much as to make previously compliant use of the standard suddenly non-compliant.
· The second number also represents a major change, in the event of two major changes in the same calendar year. In most cases, this number will remain zero.
· The third number represents a minor change. SAA defines a minor change as one that does not affect the application or interpretation of the standard and would not result in a user's current application of the standard being non-compliant.
All versions are now listed along with every change in a change log, available in the DACS Github repository here: https://github.com/saa-ts-dacs/dacs/blob/master/changelog.md
The Society of American Archivists funded a graduate student assistant position to incorporate all changes to DACS since its release in 2004. Thanks to Sabrina Unrein for completing this important work.
Best,
Greg Wiedeman
(on behalf of TS-DACS)
Gregory Wiedeman
University Archivist
M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
University at Albany, SUNY
GWiedeman@albany.edu
518-437-3936