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Summary

archives ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,229 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • archives's field of work was records management[2].
  • archives's field of work was evaluation[3].
  • archives's field of work was long-term preservation[4].
  • archives's field of work was public service[5].
  • archives is a type of GLAM[6].
  • archives is a type of organization[7].
  • archives is a type of collection[8].
  • archives is used for storage[9].
  • archives is used for preservation[10].
  • archives is used for access[11].
  • archives's Commons category is recorded as Archives[12].
  • archives comprises library special collection[13].
  • archives's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Archives[14].
  • archives's Commons gallery is recorded as Archive[15].
  • archives's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=archive[16].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Gender Glossar[20].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[22].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • archives's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[24].
  • archives's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox archives[25].
  • archives's has characteristic is recorded as archive type[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include GLAM[6], organization[7], and collection[8].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include storage[9], preservation[10], and access[11]. archives comprises library special collection[13].

Influence

Things named for archives include Archie[27], a search engine[28], in Canada[29], founded in 1989[30].

Why It Matters

archives ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,229 views/month).[1] archives has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] archives is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for archives include Archie[27], a search engine[28], in Canada[29], founded in 1989[30].

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. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → director of the archives
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P2388]]: [[Q17749309]], дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  2. 12d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held by head of the organization → director of the archives
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P2388]]: [[Q17749309]], разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect [[Q115793163]] → [[Q17749309]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q115793163_Q"
  3. 21d 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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