recordkeepers
Those tracking information
Recordkeepers are people or systems responsible for maintaining records—documenting, organizing, and preserving information.
The term applies broadly: a company's recordkeeper tracks employee data, a government recordkeeper maintains official documents, a financial recordkeeper logs transactions.
The recordkeepers couldn't locate files from that period.
Keeper of historical documents
- librarianCollection manager at reading hall
- registrarKeeper of official records
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- bookkeeperFinancial records maintainer
accountant · auditor · secretary · curator · administrator · notary · controller · treasurer
Lacking corrosive compounds
- climate-controlledArtificially maintained environment
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
- microfilmingPhotographing documents in miniature
restoration · encapsulation · backup · redundancy · migration · metadata · provenance
Stored data collections
- ledgersFormal accounting records
- logsCut wood sections
- registersRecords officially
- archivesStored historical documents
inventories · journals · accounts · dossiers · minutes · transcripts · databases · spreadsheets
Systematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- filingStoring documents systematically
- classifyingSorting into types
- organizingSystematically putting in order
storing · retrieving · digitizing · annotating · transcribing · collating · registering · updating
archivist
Keeper of historical documents
- librarianCollection manager at reading hall
- registrarKeeper of official records
- clerkOffice record-keeper
bookkeeper · accountant · auditor · secretary · curator · administrator · notary · controller · treasurer · comptroller
acid-free
Lacking corrosive compounds
- climate-controlledArtificially maintained environment
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- digitizationAnalog-to-electronic transformation
microfilming · restoration · encapsulation · backup · redundancy · migration · metadata · provenance
files
Stored data collections
archives · inventories · journals · accounts · dossiers · minutes · transcripts · databases · spreadsheets · manifests
cataloging
Systematic organization into records
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
- filingStoring documents systematically
- classifyingSorting into types
organizing · storing · retrieving · digitizing · annotating · transcribing · collating · registering · updating · logging
scribe
Manual document copier
- chroniclerWriter of historical accounts
- annalistRecorder of historical events
- registrarKeeper of official records
genealogist · monastery · cuneiform · papyrus · quipu · scrolls · codex · lineage · ancestry · dynastic
recordkeepersdestroyers
Fast armed naval vessels
shredders · erasers · redactors · censors · concealers
recordkeepersdecision-makers
Those with choosing power
executives · policymakers · directors · commanders · leaders
recordkeepersobfuscators
Those who obscure meaning
censors · concealers · falsifiers · whistleblowers · revisionists