Materials received as a unit (i.e., accession) and added to the Archives Permanent Collection. Acquisitions refers to the process of acquiring records from any source. This process results in the periodic need to reappraise (see: reappraisal) the Archives Permanent Collection for materials that need to be deaccessioned (see: deaccession).

Standards

Acquisition of digital archives is guided by two ISO standards:

• ISO 20652:2006 - Producer-archive interface -- methodology abstract standard (PAIMAS)
  • CCSDS 651.0-M-1: https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/651x0m1.pdf
• ISO 20104:2015 - Producer-archive interface specification (PAIS)
  • CCSDS 651.1-B-1: https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/651x1b1.pdf

Related terms

Accession

Accessioning 

Archival appraisal

Archives Permanent Collection

Deaccession

Deaccessioning

Reappraisal

Source

https://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/a/acquisition

Further reading

Tufts University and Yale University. Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records. 2006. https://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/ingest/index.html.