Category: Description
- A&D
- AACR
- AACR2
- AAT
- abstract
- academy file
- accession
- access point
- access tool
- accompanying material
- added entry
- address
- administrative history
- administrative metadata
- ADS
- agency history
- alphanumeric
- alternative title
- AMC File
- AMC format
- analysis
- analytical entry
- analytical index
- analytical inventory
- Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
- Ann Arbor Accords
- APPM
- Archival and Manuscripts Control Format (AMC)
- archival authority record
- archival description
- archival diaspora
- archival processing
- ArchiveGrid
- Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts
- Archives and Mixed Collections File
- archives blitz
- ArchivesSpace
- area
- Arrangement and Description Certificate
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus
- assignment indexing
- associated material
- attachment
- attribute
- attribution
- authority control
- authority entry
- authority file
- authority list
- authority record
- autograph
- BIBFRAME
- bibliographic description
- Bibliographic Framework
- bibliographic utility
- bibliography
- binding
- biographical note
- black-and-white photograph
- blocking
- blueline
- blur
- bracket
- break
- brief
- brightness
- brownline
- brownprint
- bulk dates
- bundle
- c.
- ca.
- cabinet card
- calendar
- call number
- Canadian Rules for Archival Description
- caption
- carbon copy
- carbon ink
- card catalog
- card index
- carrier
- cartography
- cartouche
- cased photographs
- catablog
- catalog
- cataloging
- catalog record
- catalogue raisonné
- cc
- CDV
- cel
- cellulose
- centralized files
- central record
- central registry
- certificate
- certified copy
- chain index
- chalking
- changeover cue
- channel
- character
- chart
- checklist
- chief source of information
- chron file
- chronological date
- chronological file
- chronological inventory
- chronology
- cipher
- circa
- citizen archivist
- close-up
- closed captioning
- closed index
- collective control
- collective description
- collective title
- colon classification
- compass rose
- complex entry
- concept indexing
- concordance
- container list
- content date
- contents note
- context control
- continuation
- continuity file
- contributor
- controlled vocabulary
- conversion list
- coordinate indexing system
- corporate body
- count
- coverage date
- crazing
- creating office
- creator
- crosswalk
- crowdsourcing
- cubic foot
- cumulative index
- cursive
- DACS
- DAO
- data element
- data field
- data structure standard
- data value standard
- date
- date range
- day file
- DC
- depth indexing
- depth of description
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- description
- descriptive cataloging
- descriptive element
- descriptive metadata
- descriptive record
- descriptive standard
- descriptive unit
- descriptor
- devised title
- diacetate
- diazo film
- dictionary catalog
- diffusion transfer process
- digest
- digital archival object
- dimension
- direct entry
- direct image film
- directive
- directory
- discography
- discrete item
- disjoined hand
- distortion
- ditto
- divided catalog
- documentation
- dossier
- double lookup index
- Dublin Core
- duplex-numeric filing system
- EAC
- EAC-CPF
- EAD
- edition statement
- EGAD
- element of description
- Encoded Archival Context
- Encoded Archival Context—Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
- Encoded Archival Description
- encyclopedic arrangement
- engraving
- entity
- entity of origin
- entry
- entry word
- eschatocol
- Experts Group on Archival Description
- explanatory reference record
- exposure
- extensible processing
- Extensible Stylesheet Language
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transforms
- extent
- extraction indexing
- faceted classification
- ferrotyping
- field
- field tag
- file guide
- file maintenance
- file name
- filmography
- finding aid
- fl.
- flutter
- folder list
- foliation
- folksonomy
- FRAD
- FRBR
- FRSAD
- fullness
- functional requirement
- Functional Requirements for Authority Data
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data
- gauge
- gelatin emulsion
- general index
- general material designation
- genre
- geotag
- GILS
- Global Information Locator Service
- gloss
- glossy
- GMD
- GMGPC
- go list
- government information locator service
- grain
- granularity
- graphic
- guide
- Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri
- halftone
- hand-coloring
- handwriting
- heading
- hidden collection
- hierarchical description
- hierarchical system
- highlight
- historiated
- holograph
- horizontal mode
- hub
- hypo
- iconography
- illumination
- image
- imbibition process
- imitative copy
- impact printer
- in-analytic
- inclusive dates
- independent agency
- index
- indexing
- index term
- index vocabulary
- indirect access
- information copy
- Information Interchange Format
- infrared photography
- inkjet printer
- in letter
- inner title
- intaglio
- intellectual control
- interior title
- International Standard Book Numbering
- International Standard for Archival Authority Records: Corporate, Personal, Families
- International Standard for Archival Description (General)
- International Standard Recording Code
- International Standard Serial Number
- interrepository guide
- intertitle
- intrinsic element
- inventory
- inverted entry
- ISAAR (CPF)
- ISAD(G)
- ISBN
- ISO 2108
- ISO 3297
- ISO 3901
- ISO 15836
- ISRC
- ISSN
- item
- item-level cataloging
- iterative processing
- journal
- key title
- label
- laser printer
- lateral reversal
- LCNAF
- LCSH
- LCTGM
- lead-in vocabulary
- legacy finding aid
- letterhead
- level of description
- Library of Congress Name Authority File
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Library Reference Model
- linear foot
- list
- location index
- locus sigilli
- LRM
- ls
- MAD
- main entry
- Manual of Archival Description
- map
- MARC
- MARC AMC format
- MARC Format for Archival and Manuscripts Control
- marginalia
- marking
- Master Record of Manuscript Collections
- matte
- metadata
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
- Metadata Object Description Schema
- METS
- mezzotint
- MODS
- monochrome
- monograph
- More Product, Less Process
- MPLP
- MRMC
- multilevel description
- NACO
- NAF
- name
- name-title reference
- Name Authority Cooperative
- Name Authority Cooperative Program
- name authority file
- National Union Catalog
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
- nominal access point
- nonbook materials
- NUC
- NUCMC
- object
- office
- office of origin
- office of record
- online public access catalog
- ontology
- OPAC
- open entry
- open index
- organization
- originating office
- other title information
- out letter
- oversize
- pagination
- Panorama reader
- parallel title
- Paris Principles
- participatory archives
- permuted index
- personal name
- phonetic index
- photomicrography
- physical control
- physical form
- piece count
- post
- postcombination indexing
- postcoordinate indexing
- posting up
- powdering
- preamble
- PRECIS
- precoordinate indexing
- predominant dates
- PREMIS
- prescribed source
- preservation metadata
- primary source
- printer
- printing
- processed
- processing
- project file
- Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- provenance
- qualified Dublin Core
- RAD
- RDA
- reading file
- realia
- record
- record group
- records inventory
- reference code
- reference copy
- register
- reparative description
- repository guide
- reprocessing
- Research Libraries Information Network
- resource
- Resource Description and Access
- Resource Description Framework
- responsibility
- RFC 1630
- RFC 1737
- RLG Archival Resources
- RLIN
- rotated index
- Rules for Archival Description
- scale
- schema
- scope and contents note
- scope note
- secondary source
- section
- self-indexing files
- series
- series description
- series descriptive system
- shadow
- signature
- SMD
- SNAC
- Social Networks and Archival Context
- Soundex
- span dates
- special list
- specificity of indexing
- specific material designation
- specimen
- SPINDEX
- spindle
- split screen
- stamping
- statement of responsibility
- stop list
- structural metadata
- subheading
- subject
- subject-numeric filing system
- subject access
- subject analysis
- Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings
- subject classification
- subject entry
- subject file
- subject guide
- subscription
- subtitle
- summary guide
- summary inventory
- summary of record
- supplied title
- synthetic classification
- tag
- taxonomy
- TDS
- technical access requirements note
- TEI
- terminal digit filing
- Text Encoding Initiative
- textual bibliography
- TGM
- TGN
- thematic guide
- thesaurus
- Thesaurus for Geographic Names
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
- time stamp
- title
- title block
- title entry
- title inventory
- title proper
- topic
- topical date
- Toronto Tenets
- transactional file
- transcript
- UDDI
- ULAN
- underexposure
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- uniform title
- union catalog
- Union List of Artist Names
- unit of description
- Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
- Universal Resource Locator
- unprocessed
- unqualified Dublin Core
- URI
- URN
- USMARC
- USMARC Format for Archival and Manuscripts Control
- v.
- valid
- validation
- variant
- variant name
- vector graphic
- vellum binding
- versal
- version
- vertical aerial
- vertical mode
- vintage print
- virtual
- virtual record
- vocabulary
- vol.
- volume
- waste book
- watermark
- work
- write
- writing
- yellowing
- Z39.2
- Z39.9
- Z39.19
- Z39.85
