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Archives are records with ongoing evidential value to the organization and society. Documents are all efforts to use data and information to capture knowledge. Records constitute transactional records within organizations.

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Archives are records with ongoing evidential value to the organization and society. Documents are all efforts to use data and information to capture knowledge. Records constitute transactional records within organizations.

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