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FINDING AID

Specialty Definition: FINDING AID

DomainDefinition

Archeological

"(1) A broader term for any format of textual or electronic tool that assists researchers in locating or using archival and manuscript collections. Basic finding aids include guides (for example, repository, collection, and subject guides), descriptive inventories, accession registers, card catalogs, special lists (for example, shelf and box lists), indexes, and (for machine-readable records) software documentation. (2) The file guides, indexes, registers, and filing system aids produced by the records creator, usually referred to as "control records" or "contemporaneous finding aids." (3) The specific type of descriptive tool described [in the text above]." (NPS 1996:D61). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FINDING AID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-f-g-i-i-i-n-n"

-3 letters: finding.

-4 letters: adding, aiding, dining, fading, fining, indign, niding.

-5 letters: fagin, gaddi, gadid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FINDING AID


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 4E 44 49 4E 47      41 49 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 01001001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#65 &#73 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 004E 0044 0049 004E 0047      0041 0049 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404348384348412354338

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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