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Glossary Citation The methodology for designing and implementing recordkeeping systems . . . helps organisations (i) identify what records they should make and keep to satisfy their business needs, accountability requirements and community expectations; (ii) develop and im cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The most basic business system and the heart of most organizations is the Transaction Processing System (TPS). . . . The primary goal of these systems is to automate computing intensive business transactions, such as those undertaken in the financial and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most important extrinsic element of medieval documents, and the least common and relevant in contemporary documents, is the seal2. Examining seals, diplomatists focus their attention on the material they are made of, their shape, size, typology (as i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The most pervasive characteristic of bureaucracy is the existence of a system of control based on rational rules, that is, rules meant to design and regulate the entire organization on the basis of technical knowledge and with the aim of achieving maximum cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The name is derived from that of an ad hoc group of CD-ROM researchers and developers which named itself the High Sierra Group following a meeting at the High Sierra Hotel at Lake Tahoe, California. . . . A modified version of the High Sierra format was a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators is a professional organization dedicated to the effective use and management of government information and publicly recognizing their efforts and accomplishments. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
News Article The National Coalition for History launches new website crsalgado 3 10/11/2025 - 1:30pm
Glossary Citation The National Forum on Archival Continuing Education (NFACE), held April 27–29, 2000, in Decatur, Georgia, was a response to a profession-wide call for attention to continuing education. The Forum's 120 participants included representatives from more than cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress. On the basis of cataloging data supplied by eligible repositories, NUCMC catalogers create MARC (Machine R cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Book page The National World War II Museum crsalgado 07/11/2013 - 1:20pm
Book page The Nature of Records and Archives cp_admin 07/22/2009 - 3:39pm
News Article The New Arrangement and Description Certificate Program crsalgado 6 10/27/2025 - 4:55am
News Article The New Book on Processing Is Here! crsalgado 2 08/01/2025 - 12:16am
Blurb The New Book on Processing Is Here! crsalgado 08/20/2012 - 1:31pm
Group News Item The New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Latino Oral History Initiative Launches Bilingual Digital Resources, by Hannah Gill malarson Oral History Section 01/12/2016 - 3:39pm
Glossary Citation The nontrivial explication or extraction of information from data, in which the information is implicit and previously unknown; an example is identification of the pattern of use of a credit card to detect possible fraud. The data is normally accessed fro cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Blurb The November/December Issue of Archival Outlook Is Here! zimmeralc 11/13/2017 - 2:31pm
Glossary Citation The number of folds which a specimen (usually paper) will withstand before failure, under controlled conditions in a specified instrument. In the usual test, a specimen is subjected repeatedly to double folds through a wide angle while under tension. Fold cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Group News Item The NYPD kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints for Years (The Intercept) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 11/30/2019 - 5:13pm
Glossary Citation The OAI technical framework is intentionally simple with the intent of providing a low barrier for participants. Protocols such as Z39.50 have more complete functionality; for example, they deal with session management and results sets and allow the spec cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of FTP are 1) to promote sharing of files (computer programs and/or data), 2) to encourage indirect or implicit (via programs) use of remote computers, 3) to shield a user from variations in file storage systems among hosts, and 4) to trans cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of the pretrial discovery are to enhance the truth-seeking process, to enable attorneys to better prepare and evaluate cases, to eliminate surprises, and to insure that judgments rest on the merits and not upon the skillful maneuvering of c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The objectives of the research project are: to establish what a record is in principle and how it can be recognised in an electronic environment; to determine what kind of electronic systems generate records; to formulate criteria that allow for the app cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Consultant The ONDA Group Lowell 01/18/2019 - 3:07pm
Glossary Citation The other extrinsic element which used to have great significance for diplomatists, but progressively lost it, is the script1. While it is the task of paleography to determine what type of script is proper to an era and an environment, it is the task of cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm