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Index to the Archive


7.4.1. Index - archival reference tool, which is an alphabetical, systematic or compiled according to some other characteristic list of names (designations) of objects mentioned in archival documents, with indication of their search data.

Indexes in the organization's archive may be inter-fund, intra-fund, by form - electronic, leaflet or card-based, by structure of rubrics - closed (subject concepts and their search data) and annotated (subject concepts accompanied by explanations), by grouping of concepts within indexes - alphabetical, systematic, chronological.

Indexes may be compiled to the titles of storage units (without viewing them) or to documents (with viewing of storage units).

The main types of indexes are: subject (its subtypes include thematic, personal name, and geographic), chronological. According to grouping of concepts within the index, alphabetical, systematic and chronological indexes differ.

Source: "Basic Rules for the Operation of Organizational Archives" (approved by the decision of the Russian State Archive Council on 06.02.2002)

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