The LOCAH RDF Vocabulary
Recorded information in any form or medium, created or received and maintained, by an organization or person(s) in the transaction of business or the conduct of affairs, and maintained for its long-term research value. An archival resource may be an individual item, such as a letter or photograph, or (more commonly) some aggregation of such items managed and described as a unit.
Archival Resource
A narrative or chronology that places archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s). A finding aid may contain several such narratives or chronologies pertaining to different archival materials and their creators.
Biographical History
An event that resulted in the creation or accumulation of an archival resource.
Creation
A document conforming to the Encoded Archival Description standard.
EAD Document
The size of an archival resource.
Extent
A group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.
Family
A document describing an archival resource.
Finding Aid
An event corresponding to the activity of an agent.
Floruit
A sphere of activity or process.
Function
A category of archival material, defined either by style or technique of intellectual content, order of information or object function, or physical characteristics.
Genre or Form
An indicator of the part of an archival collection constituted by an archival resource, whether it is the whole collection or a sub-section of it.
Level
An institution or agency responsible for providing access to archival materials.
Repository
An agent that provides access to the resource.
Access Provided By
Access Restrictions
Accruals
Acquisitions
A resource which the agent manages.
Administers
Alternate Forms Available
Appraisal
A number of archival boxes
Archival Box
A concept adjudged by a cataloguer to have an association with an archival resource which they consider useful for the purposes of discovering that resource.
Associated With
Bibliography
A literal representation of the content of the document.
Body
The ISO 3166-1 code for the country of the repository.
Country Code
A number of cubic metres
Cubic Metre
Custodial History
The date of birth of the person.
Date of Birth
The date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated
The end date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated (end)
The start date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date created or accumulated (start)
The date, represented as a string, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
The date of death of the person.
Date of Death
Dates
An EAD document that is an encoding of the archival finding aid.
Encoded As
An archival finding aid of which the EAD document is an encoding.
Encoding Of
A number of envelopes
Envelope
Epithet
The size of the archival resource.
A number of files
File
A number of folders
Folder
The forename of a person who is the focus of the concept
Forename
A narrative or chronology that places archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Has Biographical History
An agent that manages the resource.
Is Administered By
An archival resource that the narrative or chronology places in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Is Biographical History For
An archival finding aid for which the repository is responsible for the maintenance.
Is Maintenance Agency Of
An archival resource for which the agent is responsible for the creation or accumulation.
Is Origination Of
A resource which the agent makes available.
Is Publisher Of
A resource which represents the archival resource, such as an image of a text page, a transcription of text, an audio or video clip, or an aggregation of such resources.
An archival resourcce represented by the resource.
Is Represented By
A number of items
Item
An indicator of the part of an archival collection constituted by an archival resource.
Location
Location of Originals
A repository responsible for the maintenance of the archival finding aid.
Maintenance Agency
The ISO 15511 code for the repository.
Maintenance Agency Code
Members
A number of metres
Metre
Name
Note
An agent responsible for the creation or accumulation of the archival resource.
Origination
Other
Other Finding Aids
A number of pages
Page
A number of papers
Paper
Physical and Technical Requirements
Processing
A resource to which the agent provides access.
Provides Access To
Related Material
Scope and Content
The surname of a person who is the focus of the concept
Surname
The title of a person who is the focus of the concept
Title
Use Restrictions
A number of volumes
Volume
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