استانداردهای توصیف؛ در برخی از کشورهای جهان

MAD: Manual of Archival Description  

    (Description standards projects in Great Britain)  

RAD: Rules for Archival Description 

(Descriptive standards projects in Canada) 

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 

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  

 EAD: Encoded Archival Description  

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

EAC: Encoded Archival Context 

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