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A true series is composed of similar filing units arranged in a consistent pattern within which each of the filing units has its proper place. The series has a beginning and it has an end, and everything between has a certain relationship. The pattern may |
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[Series1] File units or documents arranged in accordance with a filing system or maintained as a unit because they relate to a particular subject or function, result from the same activity, have a particular form, or because of some other relationship ari |
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[serial1] A publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numeric or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely. Serials include periodicals; newspapers; annuals (reports, yearbooks, etc.); the journals, memoirs, |
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Indirect methods [of access] may be classified 1) as sequential, in which there is some type of search through a sequence of records (but generally not a complete search that starts from the first record and proceeds through the whole file), or 2) as nons |
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Both the logical and physical means that will insure that information is protected. 'Logical Security' is an intangible process that identifies, authenticates, authorizes, protects, and provides access control over programs and data. A password is an ex |
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Research or historical values are generally designated as secondary values. Legal value can be either a primary or a secondary value, depending on the purpose and function of a record. |
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[Secondary values] are values that some records have because of the uses, often unforeseen, to which they can be put by individuals other than those for whom the records were originally created. For instance, the primary value of probate court records is |
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The most important extrinsic element of medieval documents, and the least common and relevant in contemporary documents, is the seal2. Examining seals, diplomatists focus their attention on the material they are made of, their shape, size, typology (as i |
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A scroll which the clerk puts on a record to the side of the signatures of the parties to the instrument is a proper representation of a corporate seal2, 3. |
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The other extrinsic element which used to have great significance for diplomatists, but progressively lost it, is the script1. While it is the task of paleography to determine what type of script is proper to an era and an environment, it is the task of |
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Give information relating to the general contents, nature, and scope of the described materials. For archival collections give (in this order) the specific types and forms of material present, noting the presence of graphic or other nontextual materials s |
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XML Schemas express shared vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people. They provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML documents. |
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Sampling1 usually (but not always) refers to the process of statistically testing a database for the likelihood of relevant information. It can be a useful technique in addressing a number of issues relating to litigation, including decisions what reposit |
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RAD provides archivists with a set of rules which 'aim to provide a consistent and common foundation for the description of archival material within a fonds, based on traditional archival principles.' [citing Rule 0.1] ¶ It is essential, therefore, t |
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The property of a treatment that allows a knowledgeable conservator to 'turn back the clock' on a treatment. In functional terms, this does not require that the object be identical to what it was, only that we can return it to a state where our treatment |
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Reversibility is an important goal of conservation treatment, but it must be balanced with other treatment goals and options. |
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Records retention periods generally will be based on several factors. ¶ Operational / Record User Needs – retention periods based upon an organization's need to preserve records to protect the organization's rights, conduct, business, or facilitate r |
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The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about Web resources, such as the title, author, and modification date of a Web |
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MoReq has been designed to be 'pragmatic' and 'usable,' and its purpose is to ensure that an ERMS will 'manage electronic records with the desired levels of confidence and integrity.' . . . Like DoD 5015.2, MoReq is a software specification, and accordi |
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It is a regrettably well spread misconception that publication as an RFC provides some level of recognition. It does not, or at least not any more than the publication in a regular journal. In fact, each RFC has a status, relative to its relation with |
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One of a long-established series of numbered Internet standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. . . . The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiati |
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A central place in which an aggregation of data is kept and maintained in an organized way, usually in computer storage. Depending on how the term is used, a repository may be directly accessible to users or may be a place from which specific databases, f |
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Traditionally, a law report3 is a written account of a proceeding and a judicial decision, and the reporter is the person responsible for making and publishing that account. In American English, however, reporter has been blurred into report – primarily |
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Reports3 are collections of the authoritative expositions of the law by the regularly constituted judicial tribunals supplemented and arranged by an officer called the court reporter. . . . ¶ A complete report of a decided case usually includes the |
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Reports1, 2 were the major formal mechanism by which managers and executives at all levels acquired information about what went on at lower levels, information on the basis of which they made decisions for the future. Reports were of two basic types: ro |
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