Purpose:
documents in Tehran’s archival centers.
e present research aimed to evaluate the status of indexing the written archival
Methodology:
was used as the tool for gathering information. e study community contained 100 indexers
working in Tehran’s archival centers who answered the questionnaire.
e research applied the method of descriptive survey and a questionnaire
Findings:
and natural languages for indexing and 65 percent of the indexers in archival centers have
their own indexing policy. It also shows that 80 percent of the indexers use indexing tools for
documentation of the archival records. 46.25 percent of these indexers have evaluated the compatibility
of indexing aids with the subject content of records and their terminology as average.
38.75 percent of them have evaluated that the indexing tools meet the users’ needs to a high degree.
e -ndings also show that the Persian Cultural esaurus (ASFA) is the most frequently
used (68.8%). Among indexing systems, electronic work sheets are used most frequently and
Rasa so ware is the most popular tool for indexing the records (82.46%).
e -ndings of this research show that 42 percent of the indexers apply both controlled
Conclusion:
and concepts in indexing tools, and also poor communication between the indexers of
archival centers.
e existing inadequacies are mostly related to lack of updating the terminologies
