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Data are numerical quantities or other attributes derived from observation, experiment, or calculation. Information is a collection of data and associated explanations, interpretations, and other textual material concerning a particular object, event, or |
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Informatics studies the representation, processing, and communication of information in natural and artificial systems. It has computational, cognitive and social aspects. The central notion is the transformation of information – whether by computation o |
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The term with its classical etymology had been coined simultaneously in more than one place and in more than one language. Before long 'informatics' evolved into a generic term in American English for computer applications in any field and was widely adop |
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Info has been a colloquial abbreviation of information for most of this century, but it was only with the increasing influence of information technology and the vogue for snappy combining forms that compounds began to appear. |
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A superficial examination of a printed index would reveal that search engines available at this writing [2001] could retrieve many of its references from the full text of a work, but it is also clear that they could not build the web of relationships and |
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This word came into use in the mid eighties. Like export, it usually now implies the movement of data into an application, most frequently data which is in another format and which has to be translated by the receiving application. So a user may add new r |
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Digital objects are not immutable therefore, the change history of the object must be maintained over time to ensure its authenticity and integrity. |
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All images1 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. |
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When it comes to conducting business online, an organization can only use identities that are trusted. That's where the real value of identity management lies. An effective identity management solution establishes trust in an organization's online environ |
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All the current talk about hypertext as a medium that will liberate the reader from the tyranny of the author is pure hype. |
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It was Ted Nelson who first coined the term 'hypertext.' Nelson and Douglas Englebart are considered to be the fathers of computer-based hypertext, the ability to link fragments of text together via computer, allowing the reader to follow a link from one |
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Vannevar Bush is generally credited with coming up with the idea of hypertext (but not its name); his Memex system – envisioned in a paper published in 1945 but never implemented – stored text fragments on microfiche. Yet the notion of non-linear Webs of |
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The two key terms in this field, hypermedia and hypertext, were both introduced in the mid sixties. Hypermedia is a method of structuring information in a mixture of media (text, video, graphics) in such a way that related items of information are connec |
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One of the tools that they used in humanizing the workplace was a new form of internal communication, in the in-house magazine or shop paper. Its function was described in a 1918 article. 'Many shops have outgrown the one-man stage. No longer can the he |
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The term Hollinger box is just a generic name archivists have given to this particular style of box. |
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Herman Hollerith (b. Buffalo, NY, 1860; d. Washington, D.C., 1929) was the inventor of punched-card data processing and found of a firm that evolved to become IBM. For the quarter-century from 1890 to World War I, he had a virtual monopoly on punched-car |
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A holdings maintenance program is responsive to the institutional reality that existing records may be housed inadequately or inappropriately; that they are found in an assortment of containers, wrappers, envelopes, and folders; that they are bundled, tie |
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The historical society movement in America originated in 1791 when Jeremy Belknap and seven others met to organize the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston [citing Louis Leonard Tucker.] . . . The historical society had become, by [the 1890s], al |
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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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This historical manuscripts tradition, in relation to both collecting and intellectual control, was dominant from the eighteenth century until about 1960. In the twentieth century before 1960 practices were added from the public archives field from time |
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The ordinary adjective of history is historical; historic means memorable, or assured of a place in history, now in common use as an epithet for buildings worthy of preservation for their beauty of interest; historical should not be substituted for it in |
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The brightest areas of a subject or an image are called the highlights. An area may be light because of the color of the subject matter, such as pale skin or light-colored clothing, or it may be inherently bright, as with lamps or fire. . . . When films a |
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The name is derived from that of an ad hoc group of CD-ROM researchers and developers which named itself the High Sierra Group following a meeting at the High Sierra Hotel at Lake Tahoe, California. . . . A modified version of the High Sierra format was a |
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The chief reasons for the rule are that out-of-court statements amounting to hearsay are not made under oath and are not subject to cross-examination. |
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[From the act:] To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote t |
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