檔案描述主要目的是產生查檢工具，並有助於協助使用者查檢所需的檔案。為維持檔案描述的一致性，因而產生許多描述規則，例如國際通用的ISAD(G)標準、美國的DACS、加拿大的RAD、英國的MAD等，使檔案人員在進行檔案編排與描述時能有依據可資遵循。本文針對臺灣檔案機構之檔案描述現況進行探討，並敘述ISAD(G)的基本架構，進而將臺灣4個主要檔案典藏機構的描述規則與ISAD(G)進行比較。最後針對臺灣檔案機構制訂一致性的檔案描述標準提出三項建議。

The principal objective of archival description is the creation of access tools that assist users in finding desired archives. In order to keep the consistency in archival description, the related descriptive rules, such as ICA's rule-ISAD(G ), America's rule-DACS, Canada's rule-RAD, England's rule-MAD, and so on. That made archivists can follow above standards while they were processing the archival arrangement and description. This paper investigates the archival description in Taiwan's repositories, and further compares ISAD(G) with the four main repositories. In conclusion, three advices were proposed for drawing up the consistent archival descriptive standards in Taiwan archival repositories.