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It might be observed that in many cases we already know the procedures1 [that create documentary products] from various sources such as annual reports, procedure manuals, policy files. But do we? These sources tell us how administrative action was suppo |
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The problem is that the manufacturers of print film use shorter life expectancy criteria for the design of their print film than for film production or film printing elements. A print would typically be worn out by or before the time the color would fade |
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Portrait photographers submitted proofs to customers on unfixed printing-out paper that would darken completely in a week or two. This prevented a customer's keeping the proofs as 'good enough,' and not ordering finished prints. |
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Although computer records may not be admissible if prepared specifically for trial, courts have generally concluded that printouts made long after the original data entry, including printouts made specifically for trial, are admissible. . . . Another cour |
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Cornell University's PRISM Project, which focuses on policy enforcement for ensuring information integrity in the areas of preservation, reliability, interoperability, security, and metadata. PRISM is investigating the long-term survivability of digital |
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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 |
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Whether something is a primary or secondary source depends on how it is used, not some quality of the document or record itself. . . . For example, Sandburg's biography of Lincoln is a primary source for Sandburg researchers but a secondary source for Lin |
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Primary sources, we must constantly reiterate, are the subjective interpretations of another person's observation of an event or activity. Not surprisingly, therefore, many professional historians have written that it is their duty to approach primary so |
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Primary values are ephemeral. Though a few records may have long-term or even permanent primary value, most of these values expire when the activity or action that resulted in the record's creation is completed. For example, when a political campaign has |
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The values that inhere in modern public records are of two kinds: primary values for the originating agency itself and secondary value for other agencies and private users. Public records are created to accomplish the purposes for which an agency has been |
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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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Preservation metadata may be used to store technical information supporting preservation decisions and actions; document preservation actions taken, such as migration of emulation policies; record the effects of preservation strategies; ensure the authen |
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Preservation metadata encompasses all information necessary to manage and preserve digital assets over time. . . .¶ Preservation metadata is information that will assist in preservation decision-making regarding the long-term value of a digital resou |
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The objectives of the research project are: to establish what a record is in principle and how it can be recognised in an electronic environment; to determine what kind of electronic systems generate records; to formulate criteria that allow for the app |
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When the Archivist considers it to be in the public interest he may accept for deposit – 1) the papers and other historical materials of a President or former President of the United States, or other official or former official of the Government, and othe |
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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