{
  "id": "archive.record",
  "term": "archive",
  "sense": "record",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "archive",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place that stores a collection of saved information records",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "store.place",
      "collection.group",
      "information.knowledge",
      "save.preservation",
      "records.document",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The store.place holds a collection.group of records.document, preserving information.knowledge through save.preservation within a bounded space.extent, forming a persistent archive.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent information storage",
      "structured access to past records",
      "spatially bounded collection integrity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria housed tens of thousands of scrolls in dedicated rooms for scholarly access.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet Archive saves petabytes of web pages, videos, and software in data centers across California.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores over 1.3 million seed samples in permafrost beneath the Arctic ice.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "collection.group",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "search.action",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "archive",
    "archived",
    "archives",
    "archiving"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'records.document' and 'space.extent' to components; interaction and novel properties adjusted to reflect full emergence. Definition already accurate and concise, so unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-archive.record"
}