Record keeper

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Skill: Record keeper

Association
Profession	Administrator
Job Title	Clerk
Labor	Noble/Admin
Tasks
Update Stockpile Records Ponder Discuss Research
Workshop
None
Attributes
Analytical Ability Memory Focus

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Record keeper is a skill associated with the Bookkeeper appointed noble. It is used to determine how quickly the bookkeeper can take an inventory of the fortress and update the records to reflect any changes. It is trained by a bookkeeper doing the update stockpile records administrative labor. To do this, the bookkeeper needs at least a meager office, created from a chair or throne (Since Meager is the lowest possible room quality just a 1x1 room, i.e. just the throne or chair itself, suffices.). For more information on room quality, see Room.

As wealth and items are created or lost, e.g. by dwarves drinking up all your booze, the records will gradually deteriorate in precision, eventually ending up at the lowest precision rating. An assigned bookkeeper will therefore periodically update the records. How often depends on what precision he is trying to maintain, with the highest precision requiring the most work.

An experienced bookkeeper can easily maintain the highest precision level without working around the clock, even in large fortresses. Getting to the highest precision level is mostly a challenge only in the first 2 years or so.

The record keeper skill is also used by scholars when thinking about history topics:

Topic	Description	Wikipedia link	Subdivision
Alternate history	The exploration of how history would be different if some key past events had transpired differently	Alternate history	Form
Autobiographical adventure	The method of writing a biography of oneself, particularly as it concerns a military campaign or adventure	Autobiography	Form
Biographical dictionaries	The compilation of brief biographies into one large collection	Biographical dictionary	Form
Biography	The method of writing the history of a single individual	Biography	Form
Comparative anthropology	The method of comparing and contrasting different cultures	Cross-cultural studies	Form
Comparative biography	The method of compiling several biographies to compare and contrast the subjects' character and to gain insight into history	Biography	Form
Cultural history	The method of accurately and comprehensively describing cultures and civilizations	Cultural history	Form
Encyclopedia		Encyclopedia	Form
Genealogy	The compilation of family lineages and methods of displaying them artfully	Genealogy	Form
Treatise on tech evolution		Technological evolution	Form
Archaeology	The method of collecting and evaluating artifacts to learn about history and culture	Archaeology	Sourcing
Personal interviews	Using personal interviews as sources	Interview	Sourcing
Role of cultural differences	The role of cultural differences in source reliability and interpretation	Cultural relativism	Sourcing
Role of state bias and propaganda		Propaganda	Sourcing
Role of systemic bias		Systemic bias	Sourcing
Source reliability	The reliability of sources	Source criticism	Sourcing
Historical causation	The causes of historical events	Causality § History	Theory
Historical cycles	The notion of historical, governmental and social cycles	Cyclic history	Theory
Social conflict		Social conflict	Theory
Sociology	The notion of bonds between members of a community	Sociology	Theory

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