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Without a controlled vocabulary, one cannot ensure the retrievability of the records sought and only those records. . . . [It is] the totality of all the identified access points, the preferred terms and the linkages established among preferred and varian |
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Care must be taken by records management coordinators and University executives in determining if duplicate records are convenience copies or if two or more copies of the same information or records series are to be considered an official record copy. It |
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'Copies' are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or d |
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Copyright grants to creators exclusive rights over their original works. After a copyright expires, the creative work enters the public domain and may be used freely. Copyright law is thus characterized by the balance [it] seeks to achieve between private |
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The doctrine of constructive notice rests on the idea that all persons may learn and actually know that of which the law gives notice and implies knowledge. The notice imparted by the due and proper record of an instrument, although called a constructive |
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Content analysis: The archivist must evaluate the significance of the subjects or topics documented in the records and then determine how well the information in the records document those subjects or topics. |
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Enterprise content management (ECM) is the technologies, tools, and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver content across an enterprise. At the most basic level, ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization's unst |
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Standards for data contents and data construction provide guidelines for the content of the data structures. . . . Many data content standards are guidelines, namely 'rules for activities that should be applied as consistently as possible but which, by t |
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Data content standards govern the order, syntax, and form in which the data values are entered. For example, if Paul Joseph Smith is the authorized name in the authority file, the data content standard might specify that the last name be entered first, a |
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Function1 and competence are a different order of the same thing. Function is the whole of the activities aimed to one purpose, considered abstractly. Competence is the authority and capacity of carrying out a determined sphere of activities within one |
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Copyright · A work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term 'compil |
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ISO/IEC 8632 provides a file format suitable for the storage and retrieval of picture description information. The file format consists of an ordered set of elements that may be used to describe pictures in a way that is compatible between systems of diff |
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[CITRA] membership is that of the Delegates Meeting. It is held in between quadrennial international congresses and allows members holding important responsibilities within the profession to meet every year to debate their views, update their knowledge a |
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Access to a document in the possession of a public official may properly be denied, in some instances, on the grounds that the information was received in confidence. But a person who sends a communication to a public officer relative to the public busin |
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This planographic process was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855 and can be considered the first process of photolithography. |
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[collotype] A process known also as phototype, and in slight variations, as Albertype, Artotype, etc. It is based on the principle that if a film of bichromated gelatin is exposed to light under a negative, and the unaltered bichromate is washed out, the |
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[Describing Rejlander's use of combination printing to create The Two Ways of Life.] He would have needed a huge studio and many models to take this picture with a single negative. Instead, he enlisted the services of a troupe of strolling players and pho |
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The records of small though essentially independent satellite agencies were often included with the records of major agencies to which they were related. Many smaller fonds, such as the records of claims commissions or arbitration boards, were grouped to |
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A collective work is a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole. |
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Orders or circular letters, issued (in printed form) by the U.S. Army beginning in 1813, allowed a military commander to announce a change in the chain of command, to give orders, or to establish procedures for all or some of the men under his command. A |
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Our mission: To drive creation, convergence, effective usage, and continuous improvement of automation technologies and methodologies that facilitate scientific discovery, product development and collaboration among technical and business professionals. |
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The archival community has not traditionally used the term 'collection' to label the aggregates of material they typically describe. Archivists make the distinction between an archival fonds, where the items are of known provenance and their arrangement r |
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[Collection1] A body of archival material formed by or around a person, family group, corporate body, or subject either from a common source as a natural product of activity or function, or gathered purposefully and artificially without regard to original |
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Written collection development policies are advocated as a way to ensure that collections have coherent and well-defined focus, while cooperative collecting practices are seen as a way to ensure that related materials are not scattered among far-flung rep |
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Cellulose acetate is the generic term used to describe a variety of acetylated cellulose polymers, including cellulose diacetate, cellulose triacetate and the mixed esters of cellulose acetate propionate and cellulose acetate butyrate. |
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