Translations:Maak een inventaris met beschrijvingen op reeksniveau (scenario 2)/17/en

When you put the descriptions in your organisational structure, you will notice that the physical order of the items in the boxes is different from the 'intellectual order' in your inventory, because the boxes are numbered consecutively (1, 2, 3...), whereas the numbers in the inventory don't necessarily follow on from each other. The instinct in this situation is to want to renumber the archive, but this is strongly advised against for a number of reasons:

• You can use the inventory to quickly find all archival boxes and it doesn't matter that dossiers from the same series aren't physically next to each other. The inventory numbers actually act as placement codes and form the link between the abstract description in the inventory and the physical item itself, so renumbering offers no practical benefit;
• Renumbering is time-consuming;
• There is a significant risk of mistakes;
• Every addition to your archive means you have to renumber everything, so as well as being useless, it's also a waste of time.