signed to a record by the records office. [Archives] 
n., Traditionally it has been a function of archival description to authenticate the records and perpetuate their administrative and
documentary relationships. [Archives] 
n., The creation of an accurate representation of a unit of description and its component parts, if any, by capturing, analyzing, organizing and recording information that serves to identify, manage, locate and explain archival materials and the context and records systems which produc