Series descriptive system

found: Work cat.: Describing archives in context, 2007:p. 1 (the Australian series system; significant aspect of Australian archival descriptive practice) p. 2 (The series system is a method of describing records and their contexts of creation and management over time; fundamental to the system is the recording of links between registered records and context entities; the key feature of the series system, and that which distinguishes it from other methods of descriptive control, is its separation of record and contextual description; this means that records, the persons or organisations that create and manage them, and/or the business they describe are each individually registered as separate descriptive entities; each of these individual descriptions is then linked) p. 8 (series system description)

found: Pearce-Moses, R. A glossary of archival and records terminology, c2005, via Society of American Archivists Web site, viewed July 28, 2008(series descriptive system. A technique of creating finding aids using the series as the primary level of control, rather than the record group or fonds. The series descriptive system is intended to maintain control of series over time. It was first widely adopted in Australia in response to frequent administrative changes and the consequent existence of multiprovenance series. RT: archival description; hierarchical description)

found: Procter, M. Manual of archival description, c2000:p. 33 ("Administrative change over time causes problems in the management of later accruals ... Such accruals must either be added to the original series or they must be treated as a new series. ... The latter approach gained wide currency in the last few years, most notably through its development by the Australian archives community. Here, the 'wrong' group problem is solved by the separation of administrative histories from the series of records they (and their successors) produce. These administrative histories form an authority file which can be attached to the records according to the date the physical records were produced.")