Glossary of PM20 terms
- collection
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One of the subarchives:
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co - companies/institutions
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pe - persons
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sh - countries-subjects
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wa - wares
- category
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Entry within a category system (or: classification), e.g. the PM20
countries category system. Categories are defined by their type and a
signature.
- category type
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Indicates the category system:
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geo - PM20 countries category system
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subject - PM20 subject category system
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ware - PM20 ware category system
- filming
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Filming action of parts of a archives holding on microfilm, either
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1 - until 1949, executed in the 1960s, or
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2 - from 1950 to 1960, executed in the 1970s
- provenance
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Provenance of archives holding, either
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h - Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (HWWA), or
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k - Wirtschaftsarchiv Kiel (WiA)
- set, subset (of films)
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The result of a specific filming of one part of a holding, e.g. set “h1”
and subset “h1_sh” for the first filming of the countries-subjects
collection from the HWWA archives.
- signature
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(or: notation) Short code for a category within a category system,
e.g. “A10” for Germany.
