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fonds
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fondsnoun
the entire collection of the records originating from the same creator; an archive term used to describe a collection of papers that originate from the same source.
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Fonds
In archival science, a fonds is a group of documents that share the same origin and that have occurred naturally as an outgrowth of the daily workings of an agency, individual, or organization. An example of a fonds could be the writings of a poet that were never published or the records of an institution during a specific period. Fonds are a part of a hierarchical level of description system in an archive that begins with fonds at the top, and the subsequent levels become more descriptive and narrower as one goes down the hierarchy. The level of description goes from fonds to series to file and then an item level. However, between the fonds and series level there is sometimes a sub-fonds or sous-fonds level and between the series to file level there is sometimes a sub-series level that helps narrow down the hierarchy.
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Fonds
In archival science, a fonds is 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 by an individual, company, institution, etc. as a byproduct of business or day-to-day activities. In modern archival practice, the fonds is generally the highest level of arrangement, and is usually used to describe the whole of the archives of an organisation or the papers of an individual. It may be divided into sub-fonds, generally the records of different branches of an organisation or major themes within the papers of an individual. These are in turn further subdivided into series, usually used for groupings of individual types of documents, sub-series, files, and items. An item is the smallest archival unit, and is usually physically indivisible. It is technically possible to add an infinite number of subs to the fonds, series or file, but in practice it is actually rare for more than one to be used.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fonds in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fonds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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