Tietueille

Tietueille is a Finnish inflected form meaning “to the data records” or “to the data entries.” It is the plural allative form of tietue, which refers to a discrete unit of information within a dataset, database, or archival catalog. A tietue generally contains a collection of fields describing an entity, event, or observation.

In information management, archives, and library science, tietueet (the plural form) function as the basic units for organizing and describing information. The word tietueille is used to indicate the target or recipient of an action related to multiple data records. For example, actions such as additions, corrections, or transfers can be described with phrases like “tietueille lisättiin uusia kenttiä” (new fields were added to the data records) or “tietueille tehtiin korjauksia” (corrections were made to the data records).

Usage notes help distinguish tietueille from related terms. The base term tietue denotes a single data record, while tietueet covers multiple records. The allative plural form tietueille appears in documentation, metadata fields, and procedural texts where a verb or process is described as applying to multiple records. Finnish inflection relies on case endings to convey relationships rather than prepositions, so tietueille is a typical example of the language’s case-based syntax in this domain.

See also: tietue, tietokanta, metadata, arkistointi, luokitus.