Normalización y requisitos funcionales de la descripción archivística: una propuesta metodológica

The new technologies of information and communication (TIC) require the standardization of the different informative elements, to make possible the access and interchange of information. In order to fulfi l this objective, the data that is really useful must be previously known. These elements and not others must be standardized. From this departing point, the general goals of the archival description are analysed, responding to the following questions: what is it, what is it for, why, how and whom the archival descriptions are directed to. The different available standards are reviewed and the entity-relationship model is adopted for modelling the functional requirements of ISAD(G)-based archival descriptions. Several elements are detected that can be useful in the further normalization of content descriptions