A survey of the concepts in Qajarid government documents for establishing thesaurus relations

To explore concepts in government documents of Qajarids from early times (1789) until the end of the Naser a-Dinshah reign  (1898) to form categories and subcategories for establishing relations among them.

Integrated (cumulative, ie a combination of quantitative and qualitative) content analysis was carried out. Important published historical sources of the period were identified and examined carefully to extract concepts and construct categories and subcategories. Then a purposeful sample was taken from 19000 government archival documents indexed at the National Archives of Iran were selected and contents were analyzed and assigned the categories and subcategories. Findings and

19771subcategories were obtained from archival documents. The highest frequency belonged to titles and beurocratic positions (34.9%),  beurocratic terms (34.2%), government offices (17.4%) elements, and types of documents (13.2%) accordingly. Administrative titles and official positions claimed for 5 categories and 166 subcategories. Categories of titles and financial positions with (34%) occurred the most. Thesaurus relations among subject indexes show the main concepts of governmental documents. All thematic indexes of the main concepts of governmental documents are related to each other.