SAA’s new Dictionary of Archives Terminology has superseded this Glossary as of 4/29/2020.

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Glossary Terms

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general correspondence file
general diplomatics
general index
General International Standard for Archival Description
general material designation
General Public License
general record group
general records schedule
generation
generation loss
genre
genuine
geographic information system
GIF
gift
GILS
GIS
glass plate negative
glassine
global information locator service
globe
gloss
glossy
GMD
GMGPC
go list
government document
government information locator service
Government Paperwork Elimination Act
GPEA
GPL
grain
granularity
graphic
Graphic Interchange Format
graphic records
gray card
gray scale
great register
grey literature
guide
guideline
Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
gum print
halftone
hand-coloring
handwriting
hard copy
hard drive
hardware
hardware dependent
hardware independent
harvester
hashing
header
heading
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
hearing
hearsay rule
hectograph
hierarchical database
hierarchical description
hierarchical storage management
hierarchical system
High Sierra
highlight
HIPAA
historiated
historic
historical manuscripts tradition
historical society
historical value
hit
hold order
holding area
holdings
holdings maintenance
Hollerith card
Hollinger box
hologram
holograph
home page
honeycombing
horizontal filing
horizontal mode
house organ
housekeeping records
HTML
hub
human-readable
humidification
humidity
hydrophilic
hygrometer
hygroscopic
hygrothermograph
hyper-
hypermedia
hypertext
Hypertext Markup Language