SAA’s new Dictionary of Archives Terminology has superseded this Glossary as of 4/29/2020.

Glossary search

Without a controlled vocabulary, one cannot ensure the retrievability of the records sought and only those records. . . . [It is] the totality of all the identified access points, the preferred terms and the linkages established among preferred and varian

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Without a controlled vocabulary, one cannot ensure the retrievability of the records sought and only those records. . . . [It is] the totality of all the identified access points, the preferred terms and the linkages established among preferred and variant terms within a particular [authority] file.

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