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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
Book page The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Essay) akhartman 9 11/17/2025 - 1:36pm
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
Annual Meeting Submenu THE THINK BIG! EXPO: crsalgado 09/10/2010 - 12:37pm
Group News Item The Tor Project's Alison Macrina on IRL Podcast hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 02/28/2018 - 10:49am
Unofficial Standards Resource The Triangle Research Libraries Network’s Intellectual Property Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups larisa 08/09/2013 - 12:38pm
Group News Item The TS EAS is happy to announce the first Chinese translation of an EAS Tag Library glenninmd 2 Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) 12/23/2025 - 2:16am
Glossary Citation 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 cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
News Article The U. S. Supreme Court Asked to Reject the Government's Claim That it May Conduct the Public's Business in Secret crsalgado 11/10/2010 - 11:36am
Glossary Citation The ULAN is a structured vocabulary that contains around 250,000 names and other information about artists. The coverage of the ULAN is from Antiquity to the present and the geographic scope is global. The scope of the ULAN includes any identified individ cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Group News Item The ultimate guide to searching CIA’s declassified archives (MuckRock) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 10/31/2017 - 3:17pm
Glossary Citation The Universal Preservation Format is a file format that utilizes a container or wrapper structure. Its framework incorporates metadata that identifies its contents within a registry of standard data types and serves as the source code for mapping or trans cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:12pm
Program The University of British Columbia duranti 04/01/2010 - 3:32pm
Group Newsletter The University of Oregon Situation CAGeorge Issues and Advocacy Section 01/30/2015 - 12:05pm
Glossary Citation The University of Pittsburgh Electronic Recordkeeping Project suggested that requirements for electronic recordkeeping should derive from authoritative sources, such as the law, customs, standards, and professional best practices accepted by society and c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:11pm
Program The University of Texas at Austin Gallo6585 04/05/2010 - 2:10pm
Group News Item The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) hbarlow Human Rights Archives Section 09/29/2019 - 3:27pm
Glossary Citation The USA organization for issuing recommendations as to the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. . . . From 1918, when it was founded, until 1966 it was known as the American Standards Association (ASA) and from then until Octobe cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 12:10pm