n.Principally Canadianthe interrelationships between a record and other records resulting from the same activityGilliland 2014a, 122Archivists were concerned that the “art” of archival practice, and the value-added aspects of manual description that included the hindsight of the archivist on events associated with the records, as well as the connections that might be made to other records and descriptive information held by the archives (i.e., integrating the records being described into the archival bond), necessitated manual description.Duff and Haskell 2015, 50While this method of accessing records provides direct, unmediated access (as in cases such as the social media site Flickr), it may obscure the context of records’ creation and use. Unless contextual metadata is provided, it may break the archival bond that the traditional description protects.InterPARES 2020a[archival bond] The network of relationships that each record has with the records belonging in the same records aggregation.
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The archival bond places a record in context and gives additional meaning to the record. It includes the relationships between records that relate to a specific transaction (such as an application, a resulting report, and the dispositive record that concludes the transaction), as well as the relationship between the records of preceding and subsequent transactions.
