ed it.S yn.: description. [Archives] 
n., The process of capturing, collating, analyzing, controlling, exchanging, and providing access to information about 1) the origin, context, and provenance of different sets of records, 2) their filing structure, 3) their form and content, 4)their relationship with other records, and 5) the ways in which they can be found and used. [Archives] 
n., A written representation of archival material. [Archives] 
n., Traditionally it has been a function of archival descriptio