CA There is great potential in developing a national standard for the control of records that combines traditional recordkeeping practices with continuum-based thinking and cutting-edge metadata.
Conclusions
RQ One challenge is integrating item-level metadata with system-level metadata. Linking old and new archival descriptive systems should be done as seamlessly as possible, since retrofitting would be too expensive. Another important area is linking contextual metadata to records whenever they are used outside their domain in order to provide "external validation" (p.17) <warrant>
