authority control
n
the process of establishing standardized names and index terms for use in archival or bibliographic description and ensuring their consistent application
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Authority control systems often also provide relationships between terms. Examples of such relationships include references from non-preferred forms to preferred forms, references among earlier names and later names of corporate entities, references between higher and lower levelsof institutional hierarchies, and references among topical terms that may be broader, narrower, or simply related.
