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archives

Summary

archives is a type of organization[1]. archives draws 11,816 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_organization category, ranking #1,696 of 84).[2]

Key Facts

  • archives's field of work was records management[3].
  • archives's field of work was archival appraisal[4].
  • archives's field of work was long-term preservation[5].
  • archives's field of work was public service[6].
  • archives's instance of is recorded as type of organization[7].
  • archives's instance of is recorded as type of institution[8].
  • archives is a type of GLAM[9].
  • archives is a type of organization[10].
  • archives is a type of collection[11].
  • archives is part of sector of archives[12].
  • archives is used for repository[13].
  • archives is used for preservation[14].
  • archives is used for access[15].
  • archives's Commons category is recorded as Archives[16].
  • archives comprises library special collection[17].
  • archives comprises document repository[18].
  • archives's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Archives[19].
  • archives's Commons gallery is recorded as Archive[20].
  • archives's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=archive[21].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[22].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Multilingual Archival Terminology[25].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Gender Glossar[26].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include type of organization[7] and type of institution[8]. Recorded subclass of include GLAM[9], organization[10], and collection[11].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include repository[13], preservation[14], and access[15]. Components include library special collection[17] and document repository[18]. archives is part of sector of archives[12].

Influence

Things named for archives include Archie[28], a search engine[29], in Canada[30], founded in 1989[31].

Why It Matters

archives draws 11,816 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_organization category, ranking #1,696 of 84).[2] archives has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] archives is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for archives include Archie[28], a search engine[29], in Canada[30], founded in 1989[31].

Related Entities

Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia Archiv země České Atria Institute on gender equality and women's history Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Biblioteca nazionale Braidense. Ufficio ricerca fondi musicali Bosniak Institute Center for Historical Documents Survey Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Centro studi e archivio della comunicazione Chinese Historical Society of America Contemporary Social History Archives corona-memory.ch David C. Driskell Center Deutsches Spielearchiv Nürnberg Digital Government Authority Digitise document Don Juan Archive Vienna Duchamp Research Portal Endangered Languages Archive Estonian Literary Museum Ethniko hidryma ereunon kai meleton Eleutherios K. Venizelos Evandro Chagas Institute Federal Public Defender's Office Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Fluminense Federal University Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII Foreigners University of Siena

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Archive, https://schema.org/ArchiveOrganization
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://schema.org/ArchiveOrganization"
  2. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Alavus
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → archives
    Field of work → records management, archival appraisal, long-term preservation +1
    Has use → repository, preservation, access
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: archives, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909587|archives (#289909587)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 10w ago · CuratorOfThePast · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → sector of archives
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P361]]: [[Q2654422]]"
  5. 11w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of organization, type of institution
    Properties for this type → P6375, P571, P17 +7
    Uses → archive building, fonds, document +4
    Has part(s) → library special collection, document repository
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P459]]: [[Q1266546]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260984|batch #260984]]"
  6. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 21jNbO
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 13w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → archive manager
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P2388]]: [[Q17749309]], дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  8. 14w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → archive manager
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P2388]]: [[Q17749309]], разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect [[Q115793163]] → [[Q17749309]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q115793163_Q"
  9. 15w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002196-archivy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002196-archivy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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