Musicians' Correspondence and Interaction Between Archives: Remarks from a Canadian Perspective

Abstract

In spite of its vast geography, or perhaps because of it, Canadian archivists' have established inter institutional networks of exchange, leading in the early 1990s to the codification of best practices of arrangement and description, and in turn enabled the creation of a coherent system of metadata exchange. The internationally recognised Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) is based on the principle of respect of the integrity of fonds. [...]