Towards a New Level in Archival Description
This paper focuses on large currents of thought about archival profession that caused the International Council on Archives (ICA) to move towards an improvement of the four descriptive standards. The author reviews the avatars of provenance, original order and fonds based approaches, indicating extensively various positions from professional literature. The second part offers some insights to the new proposed ICA conceptual model for archival description, called Records in Contexts.