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Glossary Citation A body of organizationally related records established on the basis of provenance with particular regard for the administrative history, the complexity, and the volume of records and archives of the institution or organization involved. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Before the National Archives began using the term 'record group' the Public Record Office in Great Britain was using the term 'archive group' to designate the records of an entire agency, no matter how large, including the records of entire ministries. Th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Both the necessity and the effect of recordation rest solely on statute. The recording of deeds and other instruments affecting the title to land is purely a system of legal institution, and not of common right or abstract justice. At common law in Engl cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Recorders are ministerial officers on the faithful performance of whose duties the validity of transfer of land especially depends, and they, and the sureties on their official bonds, are generally held to strict accountability for their acts and omission cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation v. ~ Probably before 1200 recorden to repeat, recite . . . , later to set down in writing . . . ; borrowed from Old French, repeat, recite, report, learned borrowing from Latin, and borrowed directly from Latin recordari, remember, call to mind. . . . – n cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A record is assumed to be a representation of a fact or act that is memorialized on a physical carrier – that is, a medium – and preserved by a physical or juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. It follows that a record cannot exis cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation All images constitute a record, irrespective of the value we may attach to the information they contain. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The term 'record' means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and tha cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation [Records are] . . . any type of recorded information, regardless of physical form or characteristics, created, received, or maintained by a person, institution, or organization. . . . Records are extensions of the human memory, purposefully created to re cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Henry Metcalfe argued 'Now, administration without records is like music without notes – by ear. Good as far as it goes – which is but a little way – it bequeaths [sic] nothing to the future. Except in the very rudest industries, carried on as if from h cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Under direct attach a record does not import verity. No presumptions arise to support it, and it can survive only in the event that it speaks the truth and is free from error. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation 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. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Records, the fundamental instrument of business transactions, are mutating from a concrete, static, structured document to formless, dynamic data that resides in a computer's memory or on a disk. As records migrate from a stable paper reality to an intan cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Reappraisal and deaccessioning can serve as a collection management option for a number of reasons. A previous collecting policy that indiscriminately acquired materials, a lack of storage space, or the identification of materials that are more appropriat cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation 'Records' includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in conn cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Even within the archival profession, there are many differences among archivists' conceptualization of records. Perhaps the argument is best summed up with the observation that one person's 'management information' is another person's 'record.' . . . Mo cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Indiana University's Electronic Records Project . . . found that records exist within the structure and context of information systems as the consequence of a business event, but not as discrete physical objects. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Data become records when the content, context, and structure are tied together to provide both meaning and functionality. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Public records and reports. Records, reports, statements, or data compilations, in any form, of public offices or agencies, setting forth (A) the activities of the office or agency, or (B) matters observed pursuant to duty imposed by law as to which matte cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Copyright · The distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation First generation microfilm of newspapers shall provide a high resolution quality to allow duplication through as many as four generations. In determining the reduction ratio, the quality index (Q.I.) method as described in ANSI/AIIM MS23-1998 shall be use cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation RBMS works to prepare special collections libraries and librarians to better serve the needs of users by creating opportunities for professional growth in special collections librarianship. In pursuit of its mission, RBMS: defines, develops, and promulga cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Instead of using one single secret key, you could use a key pair. The tried-and-true symmetrical key would be replaced by a dynamic duo. One would be able to do the job of scrambling a plaintext message – performing the task in such a way that outsiders c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The question whether raw data collected by public departments or officials constitutes a public record, within the meaning of the rule giving private persons the right of access to, inspection of, or copying of public records, appears to depend largely on cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A 'public record' is defined as one required by law to be kept, or necessary to be kept in the discharge of a duty imposed by law, or directed by law to serve as a memorial and evidence of something written, said, or done, or a written memorial made by a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm