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Establishing the authenticity of an electronic forms transaction record for business and legal purposes requires the creation and maintenance of data that can be used to establish an audit trail. The information that is necessary to both the audit (busine |
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Anyone who works as a keeper of stuff in a corporate environment cannot afford to worry too much about the fine distinctions between Record Manager, Librarian, Archivist and Document Control Manager. The key is to keep what the corporation needs. Need i |
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The process of organizing and managing historical records by 1) identifying or bringing together sets of records derived from a common source which have common characteristics and a common file structure, and 2) identifying relationships among such sets o |
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Archives are already arranged – supposedly, by the agency of origin while it built them up day after day, year after year, as a systematic record of its activities and as part of its operations. This arrangement the archivist is expected to respect and ma |
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The argument for the use of elevated temperatures in artificial aging relies on the fact that in general a reaction proceeds faster at higher temperatures, which makes it possible to observe its effects, in this case the loss of paper strength, more quick |
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The various rules laid down in APPM are either directly derived from their counterparts in AACR2 or are archival interpretations, expansions, and glosses of standard AACR2 rules – the last being particularly the case in the chapters on forming personal an |
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Archivists have a dual personality. On the one hand they are cognizant of the utilitarian role of records in administration and the law. From this perspective they view the meaning of documents as largely fixed by explicit procedure, albeit procedure in |
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The archival profession in the United States began with the establishment of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., in 1934. Before that, historians and librarians had shared a common concern for the preservation of archival records and manuscripts, |
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Addressing the problems of volume and complexity of electronic records, some writers began formulating new ideas for dealing with such records. Influenced by the ideas of David Bearman, these writers called for a 'new paradigm' to deal with electronic rec |
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Macro-appraisal asserts that archivists – not researchers or creators – are society's professional agents appointed by law to form its collective memory. By virtue of their appraisal decisions, archivists actively shape the documentary legacy of their own |
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Archives are records with ongoing evidential value to the organization and society. Documents are all efforts to use data and information to capture knowledge. Records constitute transactional records within organizations. |
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The preserved documentary records of any corporate body, governmental agency or office, or organization or group that are the direct result of administrative or organizational activity of the originating body and that are maintained according to their ori |
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The value of archives is cultural and humanistic, not just bureaucratic. Archival programs that collect records or personal papers, which may contain electronic media, find the new definition of record [as evidence of a business transaction] bewildering. |
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Revised and promoted as a standard in 1989 by the Society of American Archivists, APPM addresses inadequacies in standard library cataloging rules, developed for classification and description of published materials such as books rather than for unique ma |
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In an informal and possibly unselfconscious way, we maintain a personal archive, a treasure chest of cherished artifacts and the memories they hold for us. The word 'archives' comes from the Latin arca, originally meaning a place to store things, a box o |
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We use an archives to remember things after they happen. But if we think of the records in archives as points of inscription, as sites of cultural production, we realize that they serve, if not to remember things before they happen, to remember things as |
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A document which may be said to belong to the class of Archives is one which was drawn up or used in the course of an administrative or executive transaction (whether public or private) of which itself formed a part; and subsequently preserved in their ow |
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The fateful separation of the historical manuscripts tradition field from the public archives field began in 1910 at the AHA's Conference of Archivists, when the application of library principles was attacked as inapplicable to public archives. The diffe |
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What is most troubling in these pseudo-repositories is their lack of the professional and theory-based application of the seven major archival responsibilities. That is, what defines the professional core of archival work is the systematic and theoretica |
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There are collateral tendencies to use the word 'archive' minus its North American requisite 's' and to 'verbify' the noun. ¶ In many cases, the nonprofessional appropriation of the term 'archives' appears to be part of an attempt by the scholar or |
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In the vernacular, the word archives has come to mean anything that is old or established. . . . A true archives is a contextually based organic body of evidence, not a collection of miscellaneous information. . . . The documents constituting a formal a |
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The documents in archival collections relate to each other in ways that transcend the information in each document. The archival whole is greater than the sum of its parts; the relationships are as important as the particulars. |
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[Leonard] Rapport urged us to consider archives not as permanently valuable, but as worthy of continued preservation – a conceptual shift that justifies the reappraisal of current holdings and revision of the standards by which archivists appraised those |
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The pervading view of archives as sites of historical truth is at best outdated, and at worst inherently dangerous. The archival record doesn't just happen; it is created by individuals and organizations, and used, in turn, to support their values and mi |
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[archival integrity] A basic standard derived from the principle of provenance and the registry principle which requires that an archive/record group shall be preserved in its entirety without division, mutilation, alienation, unauthorized destruction or |
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