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Glossary Citation The structure of a digital record refers to the structure as it was originally made and reproduced on the screen. This is the logical hierarchy of, and the relationships between, the parts of the record. The structural elements of email are, for example, cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The style of binding applied to books used for written records, e.g., blankbooks, is by necessity much different from that for books meant to be read. Their shape, size, and durability depend on the purpose for which they are intended; consequently, stati cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The substance of the text is usually introduced by the exposition, that is the narration of the concrete and immediate circumstances generating the act and/or document. In documents resulting from procedures, whether public or private, the exposition may cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
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Glossary Citation The term 'archival'3 indicates the materials used to manufacture the CD-R (usually the dye layer where the data is recording, a protective gold layer to prevent pollutants from attacking the dye, or a physically durable top-coat to protect the surface of cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm
Glossary Citation The term 'documentation strategy' was coined and initially defined at a session of the 1984 Society of American Archivists meeting that included papers presented by Helen W. Samuels, Larry J. Hackman, and Patricia Aronnson. The origins of the concept dat cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term 'juridical person' is used in the sense of an entity having the capacity of the potential to act legally and constituted either by a collection or succession of physical persons or a collection of properties. Examples of juridical persons are st cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term 'juridical' is broader than the term 'legal.' It refers to the nature of abstract legal concepts. Thus, a 'juridical transaction' is a transaction legally supposed or conceived of, to some extent irrespective of its actual existence, even if it c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term 'moral rights' is a translation of the French term droit moral, and refers not to 'morals' as advocated by the religious right, but rather to the ability of authors to control the eventual fate of their works. An author is said to have the "moral cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The term 'Presidential records' means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, his immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to adv cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The term 'record' means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and tha cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The term 'Uniform Resource Locator' (URL) refers to the subset of URI that identify resources via a representation of their primary access mechanism (e.g., their network 'location'), rather than identifying the resource by name or by some other attribute( cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The term 'Uniform Resource Name' (URN) refers to the subset of URI that are required to remain globally unique and persistent even when the resource ceases to exist or becomes unavailable. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The term file3 must have been one of the first to be used in commercial data processing terminology. Even before the advent of computers a deck of punch cards was often called a 'card file,' a term also applied to the cabinet in which the cards were store cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term Hollinger box is just a generic name archivists have given to this particular style of box. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term personal records2 means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation 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 element of the former are defined by diplomatists as external or extrinsic, while the elements of t cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Glossary Citation The term witness, in its strict legal sense, means one who gives evidence in a cause before a court; and in its general sense includes all persons from whose lips testimony is extracted to be used in any judicial proceeding, and so includes deponents and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Glossary Citation The terms 'waste book', 'daybook', and 'journal' were sometimes used interchangeably. A waste book is simply the rough form of a daybook; 'journal' usually refers to the book used in double entry bookkeeping to separate transactions into debits and credi cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
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Glossary Citation The text of most documents contains after or within the disposition several formulae, the object of which is to ensure the execution of the act, to avoid its violation, to guarantee its validity, to preserve the rights of third parties, to attest the exec cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
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