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Authority control

Scope note

Establishing, maintaining, and applying consistent spellings and forms of proper names and terms used as the descriptive and access language for collections of documents and objects.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000155319

Broader Terms used

information management

Created

13yrs ago

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Terminology definition for: authority control" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/terminology/term-24380 Accessed: 2024-11-26 00:40:23

Citation for Wikipedia

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{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/terminology/term-24380|title=Terminology definition for: authority control|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-26 00:40:23|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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