The phrase "authoritative record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to refer to a reliable and official source of information or documentation.
Example: "The authoritative record of the meeting minutes will be published on the company website for all employees to review."
Alternatives: "official record" or "definitive record".
As he put it in a letter, he was eager "to do a really authoritative record of how we like it to go & what it is all about".
A cat res, in the art world shorthand, is an authoritative record of an artist's oeuvre, to be consulted by scholars, gallerists, dealers and collectors.
History and civilisation are an authoritative record the mind has left, is leaving, and will leave, and objectivity deserving the name would take this record as a starting point.
The United Nations panel, which is seen by diplomats as providing the most factual and authoritative record of developments in Syria, said, "There are reasonable grounds to believe limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used" in Aleppo and Damascus on March 19, in Aleppo again on April 13 and in Idlib on April 29.
An explanation for this can be that a journal article is often a more recent but also a more authoritative record of a study that has been validated by a more elaborate peer-review system.
Muslims had Hadith, the authoritative record of the words of the Prophet.
Their key feature is they can be trusted as authoritative records without a single, central authority guaranteeing accuracy and security.
The resulting database of the Muncie, Ind., library ledgers, "What Middletown Read" (www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr/), is one of the few authoritative records of American reading.
Recently, with the Berlin Philharmonic, under Simon Rattle, he made an authoritative recording of "Les Illuminations," "Serenade," and "Nocturne," three major cycles for tenor and orchestra.
The problem of the relationship between revelation and reason arises, on the one hand, because revelation transcends the categories of ordinary rational thought and, on the other hand, because revelation is commonly transmitted by means of authoritative records, the contents of which cannot be verified by the believer.
Her Himalayan Database is seen as the most authoritative records of climbs, successful or unsuccessful, of more than 450 peaks in the region, including Everest.
