Dear Andy Young,
I don't have exactly what you're seeking, but an excellent report published online in 2008 may be useful:
Archival Management Software: A Report for the Council on Library and Information Resources
by Lisa Spiro
January, 2009. 119 pp.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro2009.html
Spiro compared more than a dozen software packages--some open-source, others commercial--with regard to the features they offer, so her taxonomy implicitly defines a lot of requirements. It's far more about data elements and system functionality than content of descriptions, however, so doesn't fit your bill 100%. Nevertheless, I recommend that you take a look.
Best wishes, Jackie
Jackie Dooley
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:07:44 +0100
From: Andy Young <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Archival Description Software
Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody out there, working in an archives service, has ever produced a list of essential requirements for archival description software. By that I mean a list of the key features that you feel a software package needs to have in order for it to be suitable for your organisation, i.e. it needs to be ISAD(G) compliant, needs to be able to handle digital objects, needs to be able to understand EAD etc.
I once compiled a list like this whilst researching EDRMS software, but I had MoReq2 to work with then so it wasn't so diffiicult.
If anybody out there has produced such a list whilst researching archival description software, I'd be very keen to hear from you.
Many thanks,
Andy Young
Archivist
Doncaster Archives
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