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Glossary Citation Even within the archival profession, there are many differences among archivists' conceptualization of records. Perhaps the argument is best summed up with the observation that one person's 'management information' is another person's 'record.' . . . Mo cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Indiana University's Electronic Records Project . . . found that records exist within the structure and context of information systems as the consequence of a business event, but not as discrete physical objects. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Data become records when the content, context, and structure are tied together to provide both meaning and functionality. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Public records and reports. Records, reports, statements, or data compilations, in any form, of public offices or agencies, setting forth (A) the activities of the office or agency, or (B) matters observed pursuant to duty imposed by law as to which matte cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Copyright · The distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation First generation microfilm of newspapers shall provide a high resolution quality to allow duplication through as many as four generations. In determining the reduction ratio, the quality index (Q.I.) method as described in ANSI/AIIM MS23-1998 shall be use cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation RBMS works to prepare special collections libraries and librarians to better serve the needs of users by creating opportunities for professional growth in special collections librarianship. In pursuit of its mission, RBMS: defines, develops, and promulga cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Instead of using one single secret key, you could use a key pair. The tried-and-true symmetrical key would be replaced by a dynamic duo. One would be able to do the job of scrambling a plaintext message – performing the task in such a way that outsiders c cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The question whether raw data collected by public departments or officials constitutes a public record, within the meaning of the rule giving private persons the right of access to, inspection of, or copying of public records, appears to depend largely on cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A 'public record' is defined as one required by law to be kept, or necessary to be kept in the discharge of a duty imposed by law, or directed by law to serve as a memorial and evidence of something written, said, or done, or a written memorial made by a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation In the absence of a showing of fraud or unauthorized alteration, a public record imports absolute verity. It is presumed to be correct, and cannot be collaterally attacked. The record is prima facie evidence of the facts therein set forth, and under som cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Records includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connec cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The purpose of registers [in Italy known as protocol registers] is to control the stages of distribution and transit for every official document that passes through the registry. The protocol register, for example, records the document's protocol number cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation APPM recognizes the primacy of provenance in archival description. This principle holds that that significance of archival materials is heavily dependent on the context of their creation, and that the arrangement and description of these materials should cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The principle of provenance, as applied to appraisal, leads us to evaluate records on the basis of the importance of the creator's mandate and functions, and fosters the use of a hierarchical method, a 'top-down' approach, which has proved to be unsatisfa cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The principle of provenance has two components: records of the same provenance should not be mixed with those of a different provenance, and the archivist should maintain the original order in which the records were created and kept. The latter is referre cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A collective term used in archival administration that refers to the activity required to gain intellectual control of records, papers, or collections, including accessioning, arrangement, culling, boxing, labeling, description, preservation and conservat cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation On January 19, 1989, the last day of the Reagan Administration, a federal court in Washington, D.C. granted a temporary restraining order to preserve a collection of PROFS backup tapes from the National Security Council (NSC) and EOP's Office of Administr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Map projections, which transform the curved, three-dimensional surface of the planet into a flat, two-dimensional plane, can greatly distort map scale. Although the globe can be a true scale model of the earth, with a constant scale at all points and in a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation It is essential to the official character of public registers that entries therein be made promptly or without such long delay as to impair their credibility. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The fine-grain [master], which is also called a 'protection master,' can be used to make duplicate negatives from which other prints are struck. Also, if the original negative is damaged – and many of them eventually are – you can copy a segment of the fi cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Under the [Privacy Act of 1974 (5 USCA §552a and note)], subject to exceptions, no agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a writ cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The Freedom of Information Act does not apply to personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Records whose written form is required by the juridical system as proof that an action has taken place prior to its documentation. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation [An analysis of the ideal structure of an integrated procedure1 that generates a document includes the following phases. 1) Introductory phase or initiative, the start of the procedure. 2) Preliminary phase or inquiry, the elements necessary to evaluate t cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm