fonds [English]
Syndetic Relationships
- DF: archives; collection
InterPARES Definition
n. ~ IP2 · The whole of the records that a physical or juridical person accumulates by reason of its function or activity; the highest-level archival aggregation.
Other Definitions
- IP2 Dictionary (†242 s.v. fonds): n., The whole of the records that a physical or juridical person accumulates by reason of its function or activity; the highest-level archival aggregation. Syn.: archives [records]; archival fonds. [Archives] n., The whole of the records created (meaning made or received and set aside for action or reference) by a physical or juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. [Archives] n., The whole of the records of a creator. [Archives] n., The whole of the records created by an agency and preserved. Alias: archives. [Archives] n., The whole of the documents, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family, or corporate body in the conduct of personal or corporate activity. [Archives] n., The whole of the documents that every organization or physical or juridical person accumulates by reason of its function of activity. [Archives] n., The total body of records/archives accumulated by a particular individual, institution or organization in the exercise of its activities and its functions. [Archives] n., Use to designate the documents created or accumulated and used by a particular individual, organization, or other entity that are kept together within a larger collection. [Arts]
- IP2 Dictionary (†242 ): n. ~ The whole of the records created (meaning made or received and set aside for action or reference) by a physical or juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. [Archives] n., The whole of the records of a creator. [Archives] n., The whole of the records created by an agency and preserved. Alias: archives. [Archives] n., The whole of the documents, regardless of form or medium, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a particular person, family, or corporate body in the conduct of personal or corporate activity. [Archives] n., The whole of the documents that every organization or physical or juridical person accumulates by reason of its function of activity. [Archives] n., The total body of records/archives accumulated by a particular individual, institution or organization in the exercise of its activities and its functions. [Archives] n., Use to designate the documents created or accumulated and used by a particular individual, organization, or other entity that are kept together within a larger collection. [Arts]
- IP2 Glossary (†386 s.v. fonds): n., The whole of the records that a physical or juridical person accumulates by reason of its function or activity; the highest-level archival aggregation. Syn.: archives [records]; archival fonds. [Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 16 ]
- SAA Glossary 2005 (†241 ): n. ~ The entire body of records of an organization, family, or individual that have been created and accumulated as the result of an organic process reflecting the functions of the creator.
- Wikipedia (†387 s.v. fonds): The aggregation of documents that originate from the same source. More specifically, a fonds distinguishes itself from a collection through its organic nature, as archival documents that have been naturally accumulated (made or received) by an individual, company, institution, etc. as a byproduct of business or day-to-day activities.