If records are created from scratch and do not yet exist in the
Center’s OPAC, the digital lab recommends DACS as a content
standard. DACS (see SAA: Describing Archives: A Content Standard,
n.d.) was not conceived with the space constraints of a library catalog
card in mind and therefore eliminates many of the abbreviations
present in AACR2, making it a more user-friendly standard in an
online environment.