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Glossary Citation The archivists considering the records to be appraised will study their age, volume, and form, and will analyze their functional, evidential, and informational characteristics. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The argument for the use of elevated temperatures in artificial aging relies on the fact that in general a reaction proceeds faster at higher temperatures, which makes it possible to observe its effects, in this case the loss of paper strength, more quick cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The authenticity of a record, or rather the recognition that it has not been subject to manipulation, forgery, or substitution, entails guarantees of the maintenance of records across time and space (that is, their preservation and transmission) in terms cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Glossary Citation The author of a work of visual art shall have the right to claim authorship of that work, and to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of any work of visual art which he or she did not create; shall have the right to prevent the use of his or h cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Group Newsletter The Autumn 2015 Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter is now available for download! syaco Archivists and Archives of Color Section 12/02/2015 - 11:46am
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Group News Item The BAPQ Call for Submissions for Corporate Memory Issue dmoore Business Archives Section 01/26/2019 - 1:45pm
Glossary Citation The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The basic SPINDEX II programs provide for the printing of a register (a formatted, narrative collection description or abstract) and an index. The index provides for a primary sort of keywords, alphabetically or chronologically, and a secondary sort by ei cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Group News Item The Basics of a Consulting Business speight28442 Independent Archivists Section 04/15/2019 - 5:40pm
Group News Item The Basics of Branding speight28442 Independent Archivists Section 01/31/2020 - 5:06pm
Glossary Citation The basis on which appraisal decisions should be made has been the subject of intense professional debate. Some archival theorists, notably Jenkinson, argue that such decisions should not be made by archivists at all, but only by records creators. In th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Group Page The Belfast Case: Information for SAA Members jgeidson Oral History Section 02/10/2013 - 11:54pm
Group Newsletter The Belfast Project, Arrests, and Archival Worse Case Scenarios ssanroman Issues and Advocacy Section 05/08/2014 - 3:04pm
Glossary Citation The best approach to understanding what is a document is to examine what information is readily available to the computer user in the ordinary course of business. If the employee can view the information, it should be treated as the equivalent of a paper cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The birth of the form2 nicely illustrates how documents were streamlined and tailored in the service of ever greater efficiency. . . . [Workers' documentation of their activities] could be standardized and speeded up by printing forms, sheets of paper who cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Leader Page The Blessings of Providence on an Association of Archivists crsalgado 03/08/2011 - 5:33pm
Glossary Citation The brightest areas of a subject or an image are called the highlights. An area may be light because of the color of the subject matter, such as pale skin or light-colored clothing, or it may be inherently bright, as with lamps or fire. . . . When films a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Leader Page The Call from the Grassroots: Rise and Shine crsalgado 03/08/2011 - 5:28pm
Glossary Citation The Canadian preference for the French term fonds to define the records of one creator originated with Towards Archival Descriptive Standards, which purposefully chose it in order 'to avoid certain terminological confusion which has grown around the terms cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Annual Meeting Page The CAPITAL IDEA! Expo cp_admin 02/26/2014 - 7:10pm
Group News Item The Challenges and Opportunities of Being Socially Responsible vagtsrac 13 Annual Meeting Task Force (disbanded) 12/10/2012 - 4:30pm
Glossary Citation The chief reasons for the rule are that out-of-court statements amounting to hearsay are not made under oath and are not subject to cross-examination. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The classic mono-hierarchical theory of bureaucracy elucidated by Max Weber, in which each subordinate unit is responsible to one superior unit, has long been a thing of the past. Parallel structures, task forces and project teams, joined across organiza cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:10pm
Annual Meeting Page The Cleveland Orchestra Friday Concert Series crsalgado 01/19/2017 - 11:48am