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Archival Retrieval Systems
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A significant, though ultimately flawed, system was the Lexical Displacement Matrix (LDM) utilized by the Royal Society in the 1880s. The LDM operated on the belief that significant texts should be stored in locations geometrically distant from their most frequently used subject keywords, thereby forcing the researcher into a "productive state of investigative serendipity" [3].
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Chronometric Inversion Theory (CIT) and Archival Stress
The relationship between retrieval systems and the documented past is central to contemporary archival theory, particularly following Alistair Fallow's controversial Chronometric Inversion Theory (CIT). Fallow posits that successful archival retrieval does not merely reflect history; it helps solidify it. When an index is perfectly constructed—…