archivist

professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value
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archivist

Summary

archivist is a profession[1]. archivist has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • archivist's instance of is recorded as profession[3].
  • archivist's instance of is recorded as position[4].
  • archivist is a type of information professional[5].
  • archivist is a type of archive personnel[6].
  • archivist's Commons category is recorded as Archivists[7].
  • archivist's field of this occupation is recorded as archival science[8].
  • archivist's field of this occupation is recorded as long-term preservation[9].
  • archivist's field of this occupation is recorded as sector of archives[10].
  • archivist's field of this occupation is recorded as archival appraisal[11].
  • archivist's said to be the same as is recorded as registrar[12].
  • archivist's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Archivists[13].
  • archivist's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Archivists by name[14].
  • archivist's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 2431[15].
  • archivist's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[16].
  • archivist's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • archivist's has list is recorded as list of archivists[18].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'archivářka'}[19].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'архивистка'}[20].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'archivera'}[21].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Archivarin'}[22].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'أمينة الأرشيف'}[23].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'arxivera'}[24].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'archiviste'}[25].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'arkivistino'}[26].
  • archivist's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'lv', 'text': 'arhivāre'}[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include profession[3] and position[4]. Recorded subclass of include information professional[5] and archive personnel[6].

Why It Matters

archivist has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] archivist is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . UNESCO Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . 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.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 17d ago · Bjankuloski06 · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id ['h0006616-archivari', 'h0008514-archivarky']
    Female form of label {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'archivářka'}, {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'архивистка'}, {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'archivera'} +18
    Male form of label {'lang': 'lb', 'text': 'Archivist'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Archivar'}, {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'archiviste'} +5
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2521]]: архиварка"
  2. 21d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id ['h0006616-archivari', 'h0008514-archivarky']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0006616-archivari, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  3. 6w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Esco occupation id e3b08984-19fe-4d51-a1b0-990676fc7234
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33182|batch #33182]]: ESCO occupations, matched in OpenRefine"
  4. 9w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of information professional, archive personnel
    Subclass of
    Instance of
    Topic's main category Category:Archivists, Category:Archivists by name
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ [[Property:P8283]]: 2621, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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