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As used in [computer science] circles, an ontology2 is a family tree of taxonomies. Whereas a taxonomy orders members of a single taxon, an ontology specifies relationships among taxa whose respective members, absent the ontology, might not be seen as ha |
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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 |
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Researchers in natural language processing of text have observed that what makes text retrieval so difficult is the large volume of real-world knowledge not included in the text, but which is necessary to understand it. |
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To Australians, it is important to note that the National Archives of Canada has not adopted a non-custodial or distributed custody approach in toto, but neither has it rejected such an approach. . . . While the normal practice of the NA is to acquire ele |
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There is a definitional distinction between the legal use of the term 'non-repudiation' and its crypto-technical use. In the legal sense an alleged signatory to a document is always able to repudiate a signature that has been attributed to him or her. The |
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Founded in 1867 when it gathered in the records of colonial and ante bellum notaries, the New Orleans Notarial Archives relates closely to those European and Western Hemisphere repositories that share Louisiana's heritage of civil law. The world's civil |
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The Archivist of the United States chairs the Commission and makes grants on its recommendation. The other fourteen members of the Commission represent the President (two appointees), the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the Federal judiciary, th |
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NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation. ¶ Founded in 1939, incorporated as a not-for-profit education associat |
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In 1977, the Society of American Archivists (SAA), appointed the National Information Systems Task Force (NISTF) to examine the issues surrounding its decision about which national information system (automated or not) to support. The two most likely cand |
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With SAA Council's approval, NISTF disbanded itself in 1983 and was succeeded by the Committee on Archival Information Exchange (CAIE). CAIE's responsibilities include maintaining the data element dictionary and the MARC AMC format. |
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NTSC video is transmitted in an analog format using a 4-by-3 nearly square aspect ratio and providing 525 horizontal lines of maximum resolution (although only DVD comes close to using all the lines). . . . NTSC video is an interlaced format that creates |
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Our Vision. The National Archives is not a dusty hoard of ancient history. It is a public trust on which our democracy depends. It enables people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done. It enables officials and agencies to review |
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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. |
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NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information resource executives and managers from the 50 states, six U. S. territories, and the District of Columbia. State members are senior officials from any of the three branches of state governm |
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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 |
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If the fonds as a whole is being described, it should be represented in one description. If description of the parts is required, they may be described separately. The sum total of all descriptions thus obtained, linked in a hierarchy represents the f |
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Multimedia isn't confined to computers, [Randall] Packer said, but has its roots in Wagner's 19th century operas. ¶ Wagner's concept of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk,' or Total Artwork, envisioned a synthesis of the arts which is now found in the latest digi |
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The records of the larger American municipalities pose greater problems for the archival profession than that of most local governments due to their size, greater complexity in government, and broader sense of independence. |
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[A] large portion of electronic records has a narrative function, that is, it does not relate to business activity other than by being the expression of the way in which individuals set themselves to work and go through the informal motions of carrying ou |
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The 'Minnesota Method' [Mark A. Greene and Todd J. Daniels-Howell] developed is based on the assumption that 'all archival appraisal is local and subjective', but that, through careful analysis of both records creators and the records themselves, archiv |
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Petitions, memorials, communications from non-governmental sources, special reports, reports from independent agencies, and other miscellaneous items that were ordered printed by the House. These were numbered in each Congress in the following manner H. M |
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The term 'moral rights' is a translation of the French term droit moral, and refers not to 'morals' as advocated by the religious right, but rather to the ability of authors to control the eventual fate of their works. An author is said to have the "moral |
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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 |
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Copyright · 'Motion pictures' are audiovisual works consisting of a series of related images which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with accompanying sounds, if any. |
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