Overview
In 1995, NSW State Archives and Records released Keyword AAA, a keyword thesaurus of general administrative terminology. It covered terminology common to most NSW Government organisations and common functions and activities, for example Personnel, Financial Management, Occupation Health and Safety.
Keyword AAA was not designed to cover all of the records of an organisation and needed to be used in conjunction with a thesaurus of functional terms covering the terminology relating to the organisation’s unique or core business functions and activities. Keyword AAA and the thesaurus of functional terms were merged to provide comprehensive controlled vocabulary coverage.
Copies of Keyword AAA
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All copies of Keyword AAA copyright material made available on this webpage are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution+ ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
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Downloadable formats
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Introduction – Word format
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Classification Guide – Word format
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – Word format
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – format suitable for loading into AKA [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – Comma delimited format
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – CSV format [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – format suitable for loading into Objective
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – format suitable for loading into One-2-One [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – RTF format [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – Tab delimited format
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus - format suitable for loading into TRIM captura [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Keyword AAA 1998 version: Thesaurus – format suitable for loading into TRIM context [contact NSW State Archives and Records for a copy]
- Example of Keyword AAA licence
Who uses Keyword AAA
Organisations that use Keyword AAA include:
Revised June 2018 / Updated June 2019 / Updated August 2020/ Revised March 2022