arrangement

The process of organizing materials with respect to their provenance and original order in order to protect their context and to achieve physical or intellectual control over the materials The organization and sequence of items within a collection

The process and results of organizing records in accordance with accepted principles.

The intellectual and physical processes and results of organizing documentary material in accordance with accepted archival principals, particularly provenance and original order. See also [a href="##"]Hierarchical Description[/a].

an archival term for the sequential order of documents within files, files within series, and series within groups, and groups within an archives; it assists staff and users not only to find evidence but also to understand its structural and functional relationship to all other records of the same file, series, or group. It is also the work process of creating or perfecting such sequential order. One of the tasks of an archivist is to preserve, perfect, or establish the rational order that most accurately and appropriately reveals the functional purpose of the records and demonstrates most significantly their evidential integrity (q.v.).

The order or relationship of individual files within a record series to each other, frequently reflecting the function of the record series to the organization, i.e., alphabetical by county, numerical by case number, alphanumerical by address, or chronological.