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To cover all formats the term documentation2 was preferred over the older use of bibliography not only to enlarge the idea of embracing archives as wells as libraries, but because documentation included everything, the physical and the metaphysical, where |
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In so-called 'smart' documents, such as those in relational databases and geographical information systems or in hypertext formats, data in various forms are combined electronically to produce a virtual 'document' on the monitor or at the printer. This ' |
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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 |
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Any written document in the diplomatic sense contains information transmitted or described by means of rules of representation, which are themselves evidence of the intent to convey information: formulas, bureaucratic or literary style, specialized langua |
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Documents did not immediately inspire trust. As with other innovations in technology, there was a long and complex period of evolution, particularly in the twelfth century in England, before methods of production were developed which proved acceptable bot |
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DTD refers only to the definition of a document type – not the DOCTYPE declaration that associates a DTD with an XML document instance. |
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The core of the text is the disposition2, that is, the expression of the will or judgment of the author. Here, the fact or act is expressly enunciated, usually by means of a verb able to communicate the nature of the action and the function of the documen |
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Some records are created for legal purposes such as effecting an action (known as 'dispositive records') or proving that an act of action took place (known as 'probative records'), while other records, such as working papers and correspondence may merely |
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The Society of American Archivists is committed to integrating diversity concerns and perspectives into all aspects of its activities and into the fabric of the profession as a whole. SAA is also committed to the goal of a Society membership that reflect |
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Documents, individually and collectively, are all a form of narration, postmodernists assert, that go well beyond being mere evidence of transactions and facts. Documents are shaped to reinforce narrative consistency and conceptual harmony for the author |
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What are documents? They are, quite simply, talking things. They are bits of the material world – clay, stone, animal skin, plant fiber, sand – that we've imbued with the ability to speak. |
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This term is sometimes erroneously used in an optical-storage context simply to imply that written information is immediately ready for reading, without an intermediate processing operation as would be required for photographic recording. |
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Discovery has broad scope. According to Federal Rule 26, which is the model in most procedural codes, inquiry may be made into 'any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter of the action.' Thus, discovery may be had of facts incide |
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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 |
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Lost in a Disneyfied World: Archivists and Society in Late-Twentieth-Century America. ¶ Archivists understand the past as complex, multifaceted, and fractal. They know it conflicts with the present and offers both intellectually and spiritually enr |
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From the information security point of view, 'Digital signature' means the result of applying to specific information certain specific technical processes described below. The historical legal concept of 'signature' is broader. It recognizes any mark made |
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One of the most promising technologies to help protect digitized copyrighted content, in conjunction with legal remedies, is digital watermarking. Digital watermarks are digital data embedded within the content, where the digital data can be read by machi |
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Archival science derives its construction of authenticity through the management of aggregates of records with reference to their functional, procedural, and documentary contexts from the principles of diplomatics. Diplomatics, a parent discipline to arch |
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The historian uses diplomatics as a tool of interpretation, but the archivist uses it for its value for understanding the universal characteristics of the archival document. |
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Diplomatics gives importance to the broad context of creation by emphasizing the significance of the juridical system (that is, the social body plus the system of rules which constitute the context of the records), the persons creating the records, and th |
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As many observers have pointed out, the term 'digital library' means different things to different people. For librarians, the word 'library' conjures up an institution that manages one or more collections. For computer scientists, the institutional asp |
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Something (e.g., an image, an audio recording, a text document) that has been digitally encoded and integrated with metadata to support discovery, use, and storage of those objects. ¶ It should be noted that there is an important distinction between |
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Clifford Lynch, director of the Coalition for Networked Information, describes experiential digital objects as objects whose essence goes beyond the bits that constitute the object to incorporate the behavior of the rendering system, or at least the inter |
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Copyright law delineates a bundle of exclusive rights that could conceivably be expressed in a DRM system. The extent of these rights, however, is limited by several exceptions, and it is harder to program in exceptions. One such exception is the fair us |
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A digital code that can be attached to an electronically transmitted message that uniquely identifies the sender. Like a written signature, the purpose of a digital signature is to guarantee that the individual sending the message really is who he or she |
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