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PI values, expressed in units of years, show the combined effect of temperature and RH on the decay rate of vulnerable organic materials in collections and give a general idea of how long it would take for them to become noticeably deteriorated, assuming |
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The PEM calculates and displays, in real time, values that reflect the decay rate of organic materials stored in that location. These values, known as Preservation Index (PI) and Time-Weighted Preservation Index (TWPI), show how temperature and humidity c |
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The scope of a party's preservation3 obligation can be described as follows: Once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a 'litigation hold' to ensure the preservation |
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In the early years of modern archival agencies – prior to World War II – preservation2 simply meant collecting. The sheer act of pulling a collection of manuscripts from a barn, a basement, or a parking garage and placing it intact in a dry building with |
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The duty to preserve6 records during the pendency of litigation overrides any business procedures that may be in place for destruction of records, including otherwise appropriate destruction under a records retention program. Once the duty to preserve is |
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A public officer, by virtue of his office, is the legal custodian of all papers, books, and records pertaining to his office. It is his duty to preserve4 the public records, and to ensure that nobody alters or destroys them. He is also responsible for d |
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Recall is inversely proportional to precision. The more precise you are about defining what you want to look for, the fewer documents are recalled. |
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In PRECIS, computer programs generate a complete set of index entries and cross references for an item from a string of terms and instruction codes provided by an indexer. The subject matter of a document is described as a series of terms that are put in |
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The term 'practical obscurity' first appears in U.S. Dept. of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749 (1989). Considering the application of FOIA exemption 7(c) to a rap sheet, the court held that where the subject of a rap s |
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While court files always have been public, they were considered to enjoy 'practical obscurity.' That is, the records were stored in such an inaccessible fashion that only the determined and resourceful could obtain them. To this day, most records probably |
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The vehicle penetrates the paper but the pigment is left lying loosely on the surface. The defect is caused either by an ink that is too mobile, or by a paper that is too absorbent. |
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In the manual retrieval systems . . . it was necessary to post up from specific to generic terms; e.g., the use of the term oranges in indexing an item caused citrus fruits, fruit, and even, perhaps, crops to be assigned also. This was done to allow gener |
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Single or multi-sheet notices made to attract attention to events, activities, causes, goods, or services; also, purely decorative posters. For posting, usually in a public place; chiefly pictorial. Intended to make an immediate impression from a distance |
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Supporters of a new paradigm for electronic records promote the notion of 'post-custodialism,' which defines a centralized archives as 'an archives of last resort.' New paradigm supporters urge archivists to 'cease being identified as custodians of recor |
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The flexibility associated with postcoordinate systems is lost when index terms must be printed out on paper or on conventional catalog cards. Printed indexes and card catalogs are precoordinate; they have the following characteristics: 1. The multidimens |
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Postcoordinate systems emerged in the 1940s, when they were implemented through the use of various types of cards. A modern computer-based system, operated online, can be considered to be a direct descendant of those manual systems. |
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The invention of the postcard created a form where brevity would be the rule rather than the exception. After a short period of experimentation in the private sector, the first postcards used on a mass scale were created by national governments by Austr |
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A committee of government, business, and academic representatives is exploring a promising approach to long-term preservation of text-based digital documents. Sponsored by The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) and The Association for |
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If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big media today – film, music, radio, and cable TV – was born of a kind of piracy. T |
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Through the middle of the [nineteenth] century, the pigeonhole was the primary storage device for [incoming] correspondence, sometimes supplemented by a desk spindle on which papers could be impaled. ¶ When the pigeonholes filled up, letters were of |
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The term physical form refers to the external make-up of the document, while the term intellectual form refers to its internal articulation. Therefore the elements of the former are defined by diplomatists as external or extrinsic, while the elements of |
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Careful physical control of records ensures that critical records are available when needed. Even when ineffective recordkeeping practices do not justify sanctions, the organization may still find itself severely disadvantaged by its inability to produce |
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In 1911, the Taft Commission on Economy and Efficiency evaluated the use and economics of the Photostat, a brand of photocopier, as part of its investigation of efficiency in office methods. At a cost of $500.00, the apparatus was expensive. . . . While |
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Developed by IPI, this test predicts possible interactions between photographic images and the enclosures in which they are stored. The PAT is also used to test the components of enclosures, such as adhesives, inks, paints, labels, and tapes. The test inv |
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All images constitute a record, irrespective of the value we may attach to the information they contain. The unique property of photographic records reside in their ability to capture a moment in time and to highlight the inevitable passing of time. Altho |
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