前言

制定ISAD(G)（《国际档案著录标准（总则）》）的ICA(ICA/DDS)（国际档案理事会著录标准制定委员会）于1996年在中国北京成为ICA国际档案大会的常设委员会。目前的(ICA/CDS)（国际档案理事会著录标准修订委员会）将修订ISAD(G)(渥太华，1994年)作为其1996-2000四年期方案的主要任务。

这份报告是ISAD(G)的第二版，是在1994年版序言中所宣布的修订后的版本，这也预示着修订周期为五年。1998年初，在给ICA下属的所有机构和协会成员以及ICA内部相关机构的函中宣布了要向国际档案界征集修订建议一事。这项声明也公布于ICA名单及环球网的网站上。意见征集的最后期限定为1998年9月15日，目的是能够在委员会的第二次全体会议上正式启动修正工作。

1998年9月底，ICA/CDS秘书处收到了来自25个国家的国家级委员会、组织和个人的约33份意见书，并据此整理了一份约101页的“ISAD(G)评论意见汇编”，将其作为ICA/CDS第二次全体会议的工作文件，在会前发送给了委员会所有成员。 

 ICA/CDS第二次全体会议于1998年10月19日至10月22日在海牙举行。根据评论意见汇编，ISAD(G)修订了第一版草案。 草案首先面向会议成员发布，随后通过信函进一步完善。 在瑞典斯德哥尔摩召开的ICA/CDS第三次全体会议上，修订草案最终完成通过，并于2000年初被提交给2000年9月将在西班牙塞维利亚召开的第十四届国际档案大会。

以下是参与修订工作并于1996-2000年任期内担任ICA/CDS委员会成员的名单（姓名为斜体字表示该成员来自ICA/DDS)：

参与一次或多次全体会议的人员还有：

Asunción de Navascués Benlloch （西班牙）

Eeva Murtomaa （芬兰） 国际图联联络人

Per-Gunnar Ottosson （瑞典）

ICA/CDS非常感谢以下机构对其全体会议及小组委员会会议的赞助：

Archives de France  （巴黎）（两次）

Archivio di Stato di Firenze（意大利，佛罗伦萨）

Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo（葡萄牙，里斯本）

Landsarkivet（瑞典，斯德哥尔摩）（两次）

Rijksarchiefdienst（荷兰，海牙）

The National Archives of Canada（加拿大，渥太华）赞助ICA著录标准第二个四年工作计划。

如果没有以上机构的赞助与贡献，组织会议的资金、设施与后勤等方面都无法达到现有的标准。

------------------原文--------------------

The ICA Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards (ICA/DDS), which developed ISAD(G), became a permanent committee at the ICA International Congress on Archives in Beijing, China, in 1996. The current Committee on Descriptive Standards (ICA/CDS) undertook the revision of ISAD(G) (Ottawa, 1994) as its primary task in its program for the 1996-2000 quadrennium.

This, the second edition of the ISAD(G), is the result of a revision process which was declared in the preface of the 1994 edition, where a five-year revision cycle was foreseen. The announcement to the international archival community for submitting comments for the revision was made early in 1998 in letters sent to all institutional and association members of the ICA, as well as to various relevant organizational units within ICA. The announcement was also posted to the ICA List and World Wide Web (WWW) site on the Internet. The deadline for comments was announced for 15 September 1998 with the aim of starting the revision work at the second plenary meeting of the committee.

At the end of September 1998 the Secretariat of the ICA/CDS had received approximately 33 submissions from national committees, organizations and individuals from 25 countries. The comments were compiled into a compendium of some 101 pages. The “Compendium of Comments ISAD(G) Review”, which was sent to all members of the Committee in advance, became the working document for the 2nd Plenary meeting of the ICA/CDS.

The ICA/CDS 2nd Plenary took place in The Hague 19-22 October 1998 where a first draft of the revised ISAD(G) was produced based on the comments submitted. This draft was circulated among the members and further refined by correspondence. The draft was finished at the 3rd Plenary of the Committee in Stockholm, Sweden and submitted for publication in early 2000 for the XIVth International Congress on Archives in Seville, Spain in September 2000.

The following are the members of the ICA Committee on Descriptive Standards who undertook the revision and served on the Committee during its 1996-2000 term. (Members’ names in italic continued from the ICA/DDS): Victoria Arias (Spain) 1996-1998 

Elisa Carolina de Santos Canalejo (Spain) 1998- 

Adrian Cunningham (Australia) 1998- 

Jan Dahlin (Sweden) 1996- 

Vitor Manoel Marques da Fonseca (Brazil) 

1996- Michael Fox (USA) 1996- 

Ana Franqueira (Portugal) 1996- 

Bruno Galland (France) 1996- 

Kent Haworth (Canada) 1996- 

Ma Jinghua (China) 1996- 

Christine Nougaret, (France) Chair 1996- 

Dagmar Parer (Australia) 1996-1998 

Lydia Reid (U.S.A.) 1999- 

Hugo Stibbe (Canada) Project Director and Secretary 1996- 

Stefano Vitali (Italy) 1996- 

Debra Wall (U.S.A.) 1996-1998 

Also attending one or more plenary meetings: 

Asunción de Navascués Benlloch (Spain)  

Eeva Murtomaa (Finland) IFLA liaison 

Per-Gunnar Ottosson (Sweden) 

The ICA Committee on Descriptive Standards (ICA/CDS) gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of its plenary and sub-committee meetings by the following institutions: 

Archives de France (Paris) (twice) 

Archivio di Stato di Firenze (Florence, Italy) 

Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo (Lisbon, Portugal) 

Landsarkivet (Stockholm, Sweden) (twice) 

Rijksarchiefdienst (The Hague, Netherlands) 

The National Archives of Canada (Ottawa, Canada) which sponsored the Secretariat for a second quadrennium of ICA descriptive standards work. 

Without their substantial contributions, both financial and in facilities and logistics for organizing the meetings, this standard would not have been possible.

您正在阅读的中文版元素字典由复旦大学图书馆知识组织工作组制作（李彦霖、侯茜、蔡文桐、苗青），如果您对我们的翻译有任何疑问、评论和建议，请联系课题组负责人李彦霖（li_yanlin@fudan.edu.cn）。您的宝贵意见有助于后续翻译工作顺利推进。