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finding aid

Summary

finding aid is a literary genre[1]. It draws 55 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #181 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • finding aid's image is recorded as SIAr 852-2019 002 Inventaire-archives.jpg[3].
  • finding aid's instance of is recorded as literary genre[4].
  • finding aid's GND ID is recorded as 7502953-4[5].
  • finding aid's subclass of is recorded as reference work[6].
  • finding aid's subclass of is recorded as database[7].
  • finding aid's has use is recorded as archival description[8].
  • finding aid's Commons category is recorded as Archival finding aid[9].
  • finding aid's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b3qvr[10].
  • finding aid's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300026539[11].
  • finding aid's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10634145[12].
  • finding aid's facet of is recorded as archives[13].
  • finding aid's facet of is recorded as archival description[14].
  • finding aid's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as finding-aids[15].
  • finding aid's UNESCO Thesaurus ID is recorded as concept2756[16].
  • finding aid's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as marcgt/fin[17].
  • finding aid's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as mnotetype/finding[18].
  • finding aid's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2014026103[19].
  • finding aid's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779355061[20].
  • finding aid's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 15055[21].
  • finding aid's FactGrid item ID is recorded as history of rail transport in Germany[22].
  • finding aid's RDA value vocabularies ID is recorded as RDATerms/1043[23].
  • finding aid's Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID is recorded as finding-aid[24].
  • finding aid's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 37099[25].

Why It Matters

finding aid draws 55 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #181 of 487).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . dictionary.archivists.org. Retrieved . dictionary.archivists.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). finding aid. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/finding-aid
MLA “finding aid.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/finding-aid.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_finding-aid_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{finding aid}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/finding-aid}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): finding aid — https://4ort.xyz/entity/finding-aid (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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