document: Nuts and bolts : implementing descriptive standards to enable virtual collections To date , online archival information systems have relied heavily on legacy finding aids for data to encode and provide to end users , despite fairly strong indications in the archival literature that such legacy data is problematic even as a mediated access tool . Archivists have only just begun to study the utility of archival descriptive data for end users in unmediated settings such as via the Web . The ability of future archival information systems to respond to the expectations and needs of end users is inextricably linked to archivists getting their collective data house in order . The General International Standard Archival Description -LRB- ISAD -LRB- G -RRB- -RRB- offers the profession a place from which to start extricating ourselves from the idiosyncracies of our legacy data and description practices
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