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- acceptance
- access
- access privileges
- access privileges code
- access restrictions
- access restrictions code
- access rights
- accessibility
- accession
- accession record
- accessioned records
- accountability
- accrual
- accuracy
- acquire
- acquired records
- acquisition
- act
- action
- active record
- activity
- actors
- address
- addressee
- addressee’s name
- administrative accountability
- administrative context
- administrative control
- admissibility
- affix
- agency
- agent
- aggregate archival unit
- aggregated records
- alteration
- analogue
- analogue component
- analogue data
- analogue document
- analogue encoding
- analogue medium
- analogue object
- analogue record
- analogue system
- annotation
- application
- application profile
- application programming interface
- appraisal
- appraisal decisions
- appraisal strategy
- appreciation
- architecture
- archival aggregation
- archival arrangement
- archival bond
- archival date
- archival description
- archival description system
- archival document
- archival documentation
- archival fonds
- archival framework
- archival methodology
- archival preservation
- archival preservation system
- archival science
- archival unit
- archive
- archives
- archivist
- arranged records
- arrangement
- assessments of authenticity
- attachment
- attestation
- attributes
- audiovisual
- audiovisual record
- audit trail
- aural record
- authentic copy
- authentic record
- authenticate
- authenticated record
- authentication
- authenticity
- authenticity requirement
- author
- authoritative copy
- authoritative record
- authoritative version
- authority
Term | archival description system
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- n., The set of descriptive instruments that provide intellectual and physical control over the records of an archival institution or program. Includes, but is not limited to, guides, inventories, indices, repository locators.


