استانداردهای توصیف متداول در برخی کشورها

Ø      MAD: Manual of Archival Description

(Description standards projects in Great Britain)

    Ø       RAD: Rules for Archival Description

(Descriptive standards projects in Canada)

Ø      SAD: Standards for Archival Description

(Descriptive standards handbook in U.S.A)   

 APPM: Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts  Published by the Library of Congress in 1983 

      Ø      DACS: Describing Archives: a Content Standard

It is the U.S. implementation of international standards (i.e., ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF)) for the description of archival materials and their creators

Ø      EAD: Encoded Archival Description

A project initiated by the University of California, Berkeley, Library in 1993

Ø       EAC: Encoded Archival Context

1993 Bentley (Historical Library at the University of Michigan ) Fellowship