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Give information relating to the general contents, nature, and scope of the described materials. For archival collections give (in this order) the specific types and forms of material present, noting the presence of graphic or other nontextual materials s |
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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 |
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MoReq has been designed to be 'pragmatic' and 'usable,' and its purpose is to ensure that an ERMS will 'manage electronic records with the desired levels of confidence and integrity.' . . . Like DoD 5015.2, MoReq is a software specification, and accordi |
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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web |
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Records retention periods generally will be based on several factors. ¶ Operational / Record User Needs – retention periods based upon an organization's need to preserve records to protect the organization's rights, conduct, business, or facilitate r |
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Reversibility is an important goal of conservation treatment, but it must be balanced with other treatment goals and options. |
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The property of a treatment that allows a knowledgeable conservator to 'turn back the clock' on a treatment. In functional terms, this does not require that the object be identical to what it was, only that we can return it to a state where our treatment |
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Traditionally, a law report3 is a written account of a proceeding and a judicial decision, and the reporter is the person responsible for making and publishing that account. In American English, however, reporter has been blurred into report – primarily |
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A central place in which an aggregation of data is kept and maintained in an organized way, usually in computer storage. Depending on how the term is used, a repository may be directly accessible to users or may be a place from which specific databases, f |
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One of a long-established series of numbered Internet standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. . . . The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiati |
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It is a regrettably well spread misconception that publication as an RFC provides some level of recognition. It does not, or at least not any more than the publication in a regular journal. In fact, each RFC has a status, relative to its relation with |
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The degree to which a record can be considered reliable is dependent upon the level of procedural and technical control exercised during its creation and management in its active life. Authenticity, by contrast, is the responsibility of archival managemen |
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He who acts in reliance on the record has behind him not only the natural equities of his position, but also the special equity arising from the protection afforded everyone who trusts the record. |
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The mere existence of a record does not ensure that it will faithfully represent a transaction or an event; its credibility must be ensured through the establishment of reliable methods and procedures for its creation, maintenance, and use over time. A so |
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Reports1, 2 were the major formal mechanism by which managers and executives at all levels acquired information about what went on at lower levels, information on the basis of which they made decisions for the future. Reports were of two basic types: ro |
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Reports3 are collections of the authoritative expositions of the law by the regularly constituted judicial tribunals supplemented and arranged by an officer called the court reporter. . . . ¶ A complete report of a decided case usually includes the |
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(Record, Register, Archive.) Record is taken for the thing recorded, or the collection in which a thing is recorded; register either for the thing registered or the place in which it is registered; archive, mostly for the place, and sometimes for the thin |
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Registration is the action of transcribing a document in a register, carried out by an office different from that issuing the document and specifically entrusted with that function. When registration takes place, the number assigned to the document in th |
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The registry system, fully developed in medieval chanceries such as that of the papacy, originally consisted of the entire transcription of definitive – but not all – records. In the course of time – in the face of the growth of the production of records |
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The duty to preserve records arises from the same sources as the duty to create them: statute, regulation, and contract. When the records relate to litigation or potential litigation an additional duty arises to preserve relevant material. Once records be |
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A reliable record is one that is capable of standing for the facts to which it attests. Reliability thus refers to the truth-value of the record as a statement of facts and it is assessed in relation to the proximity of the observer and recorder to the f |
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Finally, the record must be redactable, which means that the system must be able to mask part of the record. This last requirement is particularly important for systems that carry personal or proprietary information. |
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Providing reference service for JWT and other business users quickly showed us some distinctions between our accustomed academic researchers and those in the business world. We found that business inquirers most often need the answer, they need it now, a |
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When making reference4 requests, either in person or over the telephone, to a reference librarian or archivist, or to an information retrieval system, a user will refine his or her search request several times depending on the feedback from the person or |
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The purpose of the registers [known in Italy as protocol registers] is to control the stages of distribution and transit for every official document that passes through the registry. The protocol register, for example, records the documents protocol numb |
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