The LOCAH RDF Vocabulary
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Finding Aid
A document describing an archival resource.
EAD Document
A document conforming to the Encoded Archival Description standard.
Biographical History
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.
Repository
An institution or agency responsible for providing access to archival materials.
Archival Resource
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.
Level
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.
Extent
The size of an archival resource.
Creation
An event that resulted in the creation or accumulation of an archival resource.
Floruit
An event corresponding to the activity of an agent.
Family
A group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.
Function
A sphere of activity or process.
Genre or Form
A category of archival material, defined either by style or technique of intellectual content, order of information or object function, or physical characteristics.
Maintenance Agency
A repository responsible for the maintenance of the archival finding aid.
Is Maintenance Agency Of
An archival finding aid for which the repository is responsible for the maintenance.
Encoded As
An EAD document that is an encoding of the archival finding aid.
Encoding Of
An archival finding aid of which the EAD document is an encoding.
Administers
A resource which the agent manages.
Is Administered By
An agent that manages the resource.
Provides Access To
A resource to which the agent provides access.
Access Provided By
An agent that provides access to the resource.
Is Publisher Of
A resource which the agent makes available.
An indicator of the part of an archival collection constituted by an archival resource.
Is Represented By
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.
Origination
An agent responsible for the creation or accumulation of the archival resource.
Is Origination Of
An archival resource for which the agent is responsible for the creation or accumulation.
Has Biographical History
A narrative or chronology that places archival materials in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Is Biographical History For
An archival resource that the narrative or chronology places in context by providing information about their creator(s).
Associated With
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.
Members
Country Code
The ISO 3166-1 code for the country of the repository.
Maintenance Agency Code
The ISO 15511 code for the repository.
Body
A literal representation of the content of the document.
Date created or accumulated
The date, represented as a string, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
The 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 start 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 end date, represented as a typed literal, of a time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated.
Date of Birth
The date of birth of the person.
Date of Death
The date of death of the person.
The size of the archival resource.
Custodial History
Acquisitions
Scope and Content
Appraisal
Accruals
Access Restrictions
Use Restrictions
Physical and Technical Requirements
Other Finding Aids
Location of Originals
Alternate Forms Available
Related Material
Bibliography
Note
Processing
Name
Dates
Location
Other
Surname
The surname of a person who is the focus of the concept
Forename
The forename of a person who is the focus of the concept
Title
The title of a person who is the focus of the concept
Epithet
Archival Box
A number of archival boxes
Metre
A number of metres
Cubic Metre
A number of cubic metres
Folder
A number of folders
Envelope
A number of envelopes
Volume
A number of volumes
File
A number of files
Item
A number of items
Page
A number of pages
Paper
A number of papers