The study of historical documents and records, including aspects of philology, bibliography, paleography, and historical linguistics

The process of collecting, organizing, and storing documents or information to make it easily searchable and retrievable.

A film or television program created by editing together historical documents, records, photographs, and other archival materials.

documentary film (rhotic variant)

A systematic list of books, articles, and other materials on a specific subject or by a specific author.

A massive encyclopedia of historical documents and institutions compiled by the Yuan Dynasty scholar Ma Duanlin. It consists of 348 volumes and covers imperial history from antiquity through the Southern Song dynasty. Together with the [[通典|通典|tong1 dian3]] and [[通志|通志|tong1 zhi4]], it is known as one of the 'Three Universal Histories'.

cited material; reference literature; bibliography

Scientific and technical texts or contributions; scientific literature