The National Archives Catalog

History of Changes 2008-2009

History of Changes

2010-2011

2009
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

2008
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

2006-2007

2004-2005

2002-2003

2000-2001


December 17, 2009

November 23, 2009

November 10, 2009

October 29, 2009

October 19, 2009

October 8, 2009

  • Added "CUS-I", "FLT-Z", "IND-F", "PCK-1", "PCK-2", and "PHT-C" to Holdings Measurement Type Authority List.
  • Added "Government Printing Office (Washington, DC)" and "University of North Texas Libraries (Denton, TX)" to Location Facility Authority List.
  • Changed "NRABA" to "NRAAB", "NRANA" to "NRAAN", "NRBPA" to "NRBA", "NRCAA" to "NRCA", "NRDCA" to "NRDA", "NREKA" to "NREA", "NRFFA" to "NRFA", "NRHLA" to "NRHAL", "NRHSA" to "NRHAS", "NRIA" to "NRIAA", and "NRISA" to "NRIAS" on Reference Unit Authority List.

September 22, 2009

September 3, 2009

August 18, 2009

August 4, 2009

August 3, 2009

  • Added new elements General Media Type and Other Preservation Characteristics and new authority lists General Media Type Authority List and Other Preservation Characteristics Authority List.
  • Changed the name of the element Media Type to Specific Media Type and also applied the change for Microform Products.
  • Updated the definition for General Records Type to indicate that it addresses the intellectual nature of the records.
  • Updated the Authority Lists Index, Alphabetical Listing of Elements, and Title pages to include General Media Type, Specific Media Type, and Other Preservation Characteristics.
  • Updated the guidance for Specific Media Type to emphasize a preference for "mixed media" instead of "interfiled".
  • Changed the data values for the following terms found in the Specific Media Type Authority List:
    • Digital Print TO Digitally Produced Print
    • Magnetic Disk TO Networked Storage
    • Magnetic Disk: Floppy Disk TO Floppy Disk
    • Magnetic Disk: Hard Drive TO Hard Drive
    • Optical Disk: Compact Disk TO Compact Disk (CD)
    • Optical Disk: Digital Versatile Disk TO Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)
    • Original Positive TO Cased Photograph/Direct Positive
  • Added the data values for the following terms found in the Specific Media Type Authority List:
    • 3480 - Class Magnetic Tape Cartridge
    • Aerial Film
    • Aerial Print
    • Audio Minicassette
    • Clothing
    • Collage
    • Decorative Object
    • Digital Linear Tape (DLT)
    • Drawing
    • Film Negative
    • Flag/Banner
    • Flash Memory Card
    • Frame
    • Furniture
    • Glass Negative
    • Graphic Material
    • Interpositive Transparency
    • Jewelry
    • Linear Tape Open (LTO)
    • Medals/Insignias
    • Painting
    • Personal Object
    • Sculpture
    • Stone/Mineral Sample/Gem
    • Thread/Fibers
    • USB Flash Drive
    • Utilitarian Object
    • Weapon
    • X-ray
    • Zip Disk
  • Deleted the data values for the following terms found in the Specific Media Type Authority List:
    • Artifact
    • Artwork
    • Linocut
    • Magnetic Tape Cassette
    • Manual Print
    • Optical Disk
    • Photomechanical Print
  • Retired the term Magnetic Tape Cartridge found in the Specific Media Type Authority List. This term may continue to be used in ARC until it is no longer needed. It may not be used in other systems.
  • Changed the data values for the following terms found in the Process Authority List:
    • Artwork: Acrylic TO Paint: Acrylic
    • Artwork: Gouache TO Paint: Gouache
    • Artwork: Oil TO Paint: Oil
    • Artwork: Watercolor TO Paint: Watercolor
    • Photocopy TO Document Copying: Photocopy
    • Photographic: Direct Positive-Photostat TO Document Copying: Photostats
    • Photographic: Collodion-Matte Collodion-Printing out TO Photographic: Matte Collodion
    • Photographic: Collodion-Wet Collodion (Ambrotype) TO Photographic: Ambrotype
    • Photographic: Collodion-Wet Collodion (Tintype) TO Photographic: Tintype
    • Photographic: Direct Positive-Daguerreotype TO Photographic: Daguerreotype
    • Photographic: Iron-Blueprint TO Photographic: Cyanotype
    • Photographic: Iron TO Photoreproduction: Blueprint
    • Photographic: Gelatin Silver-Developing Out TO Photographic: Gelatin Silver DOP (Developed Out Paper)
    • Photographic: Gelatin Silver-Printing Out TO Photographic: Gelatin Silver POP (Printed Out Paper)
    • Printing: Ink Jet Printing TO Printing: Ink Jet
    • Printing: Laser Printing TO Printing: Laser
    • Printing: Screen TO Printing: Screenprint
    • Varied TO Mixed Media
  • Added the data values for the following terms found in the Process Authority List:
    • Album/Scrapbook
    • Artwork: Color Pencil
    • Artwork: Graphite Pencil
    • Artwork: Pastel/Chalk
    • Document Copying: Letterpress
    • Document Copying: Mimeograph
    • Document Copying: Unknown
    • Document Copying: Verifax
    • Hand Drawn
    • Handwritten
    • Microform: Thermal Processed Silver
    • Paint: Unknown
    • Photographic: Carbon/Woodburytype
    • Photographic: Chromogenic
    • Photographic: Collodion
    • Photographic: Direct Duplicate Negative
    • Photographic: Original Negative
    • Photographic: Platinum/Palladium
    • Photographic: Polaroid (dye-diffusion transfer)
    • Photographic: Salted Paper
    • Photomechanical: Printing
    • Photoreproduction: Brown Line
    • Photoreproduction: Brown Print
    • Photoreproduction: Diazo
    • Photoreproduction: Unknown
    • Printing: Linocut
    • Printing: Manual Print
    • Printing: Unknown
    • Typed
  • Deleted the data values for the following terms found in the Process Authority List:
    • Artwork: Chalk
    • Artwork: Pastel
    • Artwork: Pencil
    • Coloring: Dyeing
    • Coloring: Staining
    • Coloring: Whitening
    • Photographic: Additive Color
    • Photographic: Additive Color-Autochrome
    • Photographic: Additive Color-Dufaycolor
    • Photographic: Additive Color-Finlaycolor
    • Photographic: Additive Color-Screen
    • Photographic: Aristotype
    • Photographic: Collodion-Wet Collodion
    • Photographic: Collodion-Dry Collodion
    • Photographic: Direct Positive
    • Photographic: Direct Positive-Bayard's Process
    • Photographic: Direct Positive- Heliography
    • Photographic: Dye Diffusion Transfer
    • Photographic: Dye Diffusion Transfer (Internal)
    • Photographic: Electrophotography
    • Photographic: Gelatin Silver-Developing Out (Crayon)
    • Photographic: Gelatin Silver-Developing Out-Stripping Film
    • Photographic: Interference Process-Holography
    • Photographic: Interference Process-Lippmann Process
    • Photographic: Iron-Kallitype
    • Photographic: Iron-Palladium
    • Photographic: Iron-Platinum
    • Photographic: Lenticular
    • Photographic: Pigment
    • Photographic: Pigment-Bichromate
    • Photographic: Pigment-Bichromate (Carbon)
    • Photographic: Pigment-Bichromate (Gum)
    • Photographic: Pigment Bichromate (Oil)
    • Photographic: Pigment-Carbro
    • Photographic: Salted Paper Process
    • Photographic: Salted Paper Process-Calotype
    • Photographic: Salted Paper Process-Photogenic Drawing
    • Photographic: Salted Paper Process-Waxed paper
    • Photographic: Silver-dye Bleach
    • Photographic: Silver-dye Bleach (Cibachrome)
    • Photographic: Silver-Dye Bleach (Gasparcolor)
    • Photographic: Stabilization
    • Photographic: Subtractive Color-Chromogenic
    • Photographic: Subtractive Color-Chromogenic (Kodachrome)
    • Photographic: Subtractive Color-Chromogenic (Negative)
    • Photographic: Subtractive Color-Chromogenic (Positive)
    • Photographic: Three-color
    • Photographic: Two-color
    • Photographic: Wothlytype
    • Photomechanical: Collotype
    • Photomechanical: Dye Transfer
    • Photomechanical: Dye Transfer-Eastman Washoff Relief
    • Photomechanical: Dye Transfer-Pinatype
    • Photomechanical: Etched Daguerreotype
    • Photomechanical: Photoaquatint
    • Photomechanical: Photoengraving
    • Photomechanical: Photogalvanography
    • Photomechanical: Photogravure
    • Photomechanical: Photolithography
    • Photomechanical: Relief Halftone
    • Photomechanical: Rotogravure
    • Photomechanical: Woodburytype
    • Printing: Collograph Printing
    • Printing: Color printing-Three Color
    • Printing: Gypsography
    • Printing: Intaglio-Crayon Manner
    • Printing: Intaglio-Engraving
    • Printing: Intaglio-Engraving (Copper)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Drypoint)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Line)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Mezzotint)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Siderography)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Steel)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Engraving (Stipple)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Etching (Aquatint)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Etching (Etching)
    • Printing: Intaglio- Etching (Soft Ground)
    • Printing: Nature Printing
    • Printing: Planographic-Lithography
    • Printing: Planographic-Lithography (Chromolithography)
    • Printing: Planographic Lithography (Color)
    • Printing: Planographic-Lithography (Engraving)
    • Printing: Planographic-Lithography (Offset Lithography)
    • Printing: Planographic-Lithography (Transfer)
    • Printing: Planographic-Monotype
    • Printing: Planographic-Offset Printing
    • Printing: Relief-Block Printing
    • Printing: Relief Dotted Manner
    • Printing: Relief-Letterpress
    • Printing: Relief-Linoleum Block
    • Printing: Relief-Potato Printing
    • Printing: Relief-Relief Etching
    • Printing: Relief-White Line Engraving
    • Printing: Relief-Wood Engraving
    • Printing: Relief-Woodcut
    • Printing: Transfer
    • Sound Recordings: Coursegroove
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-DIN
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-Dolby A
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-Dolby B
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-Dolby C
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-IEC
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-NAB
    • Sound Recordings: Equalization-RIAA
    • Sound Recordings: Microgroove

July 13, 2009

June 16, 2009

June 2, 2009

May 19, 2009

  • Added "Aluminum", "Animal Skin product", "Board", "Bone/Ivory/Claw/Tooth", "Cellulose acetate butyrate", "Ceramic", "Enamel", "Film/Plastic: Acetate", "Film/Plastic: Nitrate", "Film/Plastic: Polyester", "Film/Plastic: Unknown", "Other", "Plant based material", "Plastic/Rubber/Synthetic Resin", "Shell", "Steel", "Stone", "Stretched Canvas", and "Textile" to Base Authority List
  • Deleted "Cellulose Acetate", "Cellulose Acetate-Diacetate", "Cellulose Acetate-Triacetate", "Cellulose Nitrate", "Fabric", "Polyester", "Plastic", and "Rubber" from Base Authority List
  • Added "Monochrome" to Color Authority List
  • Added "3 ½ x 5 inches" to Dimension Authority List
  • Added "Dictation Belt: Sonobelts", "Dictation Belt: Dictaphone DictaBelt", "Sound: 2 Tracks", "Sound: 4 Tracks", "Sound: 8 Tracks", "Sound: ½" EIAJ Type 1", "Sound: 2" Quad", "Sound: 2" Helical Ampex -1500", "Sound: 2" Helical IVC-900", "Sound: Betacam SX", "Sound: Betamax/Super/HB", "Sound: Broadcast transcription test pressing", "Sound: D4", "Sound: D5-HD", "Sound: Digital-8", "Sound: DV mini", "Sound: DVCAM", "Sound: DVCPRO50/P", "Sound: DVCPRO/D7", "Sound: DVC PRO HD", "Sound: MPEG IMX", "Sound: S-VHS", "Sound: Soundscriber", "1", "2", "3", and "4", to Format Authority List.
  • Deleted "Sound: Audiocassette", "Sound: Compact Disc", "Sound: Original Instantaneous", and "Sound: Test Pressing" from Format Authority List.

May 7, 2009

April 21, 2009

April 13, 2009

March 24, 2009

March 17, 2009

  • Editted entries for "TUB-A", "TUB-E", "TUB-G", "TUB-M", "TUB-N", and "TUB-O" in the Holdings Measurement Type Authority List.
  • Added "FLT-W", "FRC-BX", "FRC-BL", "FRC-BM", "FRC-BS", "FRC-H2", "FRC-Q", "IRS-1", "IRS-2", "IRS-S", "MIC-D", "MIF-E", "MIS-Q", "MIS-R", "MIS-S", "MON-1", "MON-2", "PAY-1", "PAY-2", "PHS-C", "RDE-1", "REC-1", "TCK-1", "TCK-2", "TUB-1", "TUB-2", "TUB-3", "TUB-4", "TUB-5", "TUB-6", "TUB-7", "TUB-8", "TUB-9", "TUB-10", "TUB-11", "TUB-12", "TUB-13", "TUB-14", "TUB-15", "TUB-16", "TUB-17", "TUB-18", "TUB-19", "TUB-20", "TUB-21", "TUB-22", "TUB-23", "TUB-24", "TUB-B", "TUB-F", "TUR-1", "TUR-2", "TUR-3", "XRB-2", "XRB-3", and "XRB-4" to Holdings Measurement Type Authority List.

February 24, 2009

February 18, 2009

February 12, 2009

January 27, 2009

  • Added "George W. Bush Library (Lewisville, TX)" to Location Facility Authority List.
  • Added "NLGWB George W. Bush Library" to Reference Unit Authority List.
  • Added "DFB-I" and "DFB-J" to Holdings Measurement Type Authority List.
  • Added "ASCII Text", "Audiovisual (RealMedia Video Stream)", "Audiovisual File (AVI)", "Audiovisual File (MOV)", "Audiovisual File (MP4)", "Audiovisual File (WMV)", "Image (BMP)", "Image (GIF)", "Image (JPG)", "MS Excel Spreadsheet", "Microsoft PowerPoint Document", "Microsoft Word Document", "Microsoft Write Document", "Portable Document File (PDF)", "Sound File (MP3)", and "Sound File (WAV)" to Object Type Authority List.

December 18, 2008

October 15, 2008

September 3, 2008

August 22, 2008

August 20, 2008

May 30, 2008

April 22, 2008

March 21, 2008

March 3, 2008

February 15, 2008

February 8, 2008

January 23, 2008

January 10, 2008

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