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Glossary Citation In contemporary documents, the entitling is usually followed by the date, indicating the place (topical date) and/or the time (chronological date) of the compilation of the document and/or the action which the document concerns. In medieval and early mode cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The concept is articulated as an 'attempt to document all aspects of historical development, seeking the records not just of officialdom or of a governing elite but of all segments of a community,' and 'combining official administrative records and relat cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Although we can't tell just by looking at it, this receipt was probably produced using a digital cash register, a computer incorporating a printer and a cash drawer. If so, a digital record of my tuna-fish-chips-and-water transaction2 was being created cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation To have a transaction3 it is not sufficient to have a communication, but it is necessary that such a communication creates, modifies, maintains, or extinguishes a relationship with other persons. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The most basic business system and the heart of most organizations is the Transaction Processing System (TPS). . . . The primary goal of these systems is to automate computing intensive business transactions, such as those undertaken in the financial and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The philosophy of management that evolved in response to new needs, later to be labeled systematic management, promoted rational and impersonal systems in preference to personal and idiosyncratic leadership for maintaining efficiency in a firm's operation cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation In theory, the development of a good taxonomy takes into account the importance of separating elements of a group (taxon) into subgroups (taxa) that are mutually exclusive, unambiguous, and taken together, include all possibilities. In practice, a good ta cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation No text is an innocent by-product of administrative or personal action, but rather a constructed product – although that conscious construction may be so transformed into unconscious patters of social behaviour, language conventions, organization process cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary arranged in a known order and structured so that equivalence, homographic, hierarchical, and associative relationships among terms are displayed clearly and identified by standardized relationship indicators that are cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Nearly every storage environment is dynamic, changing with the weather, with the seasons, or by conscious actions taken to save money or to be more comfortable. It is difficult enough to know the effect of any given static condition on the decay rate of a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Structure is the format of the document, such as a purchase order, registration form, or memorandum. ¶ For paper records, all of the characteristics are embedded in each physical artifact, or document. In electronic form, while the content of the me cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
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 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Subfield codes identify the individual data elements within the field, and precede the data elements they identify. Each data fields contains at least one subfield code. The subfield code consists of a delimiter [1F16, 8-bit] followed by a data element id cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Today, the superscription tends to take the form of an entitling; sometimes, however, it coexists with the entitling. It still appears by itself in all contractual documents (the superscription includes the mention of the first party), in declarative docu cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The managerial philosophy that emerged, first in the railroads and later in manufacturing firms, sought to achieve better control of business processes and outcomes by imposing system, in great part through formal communication. According to this philoso cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A statement, transcribed from the item being described, relating to persons responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of the item, to corporate bodies from which the content emanates, or to persons or corporate bodies responsible for the perfor cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
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 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Stenography1, or phonography (as it was often called) – taking dictation by shorthand and later transcribing it – seems to have played only a limited role in business before the typewriter. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Structural metadata might include whether the resource is simple or complex (multi-page, multi-volume, has discrete parts, contains multiple views); what the major intellectual divisions of a resource are (table of contents, chapter, musical movement); id cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation Structural metadata can be thought of as the glue that binds compound objects together, relating, for example, articles, issues and volumes of serial publications, or the pages and chapters of a book. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation In the nineteenth century the idea arose of keeping a library's collection of books in a space separate from the reading room, and this led to the development of the bookstack as we know it today. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation De jure standards emanate from legislative bodies and are regulatory in nature, while de facto standards derive from particular products that dominate the market. Voluntary consensus standards emerge from cooperative ventures and usually reflect consensu cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation A standard is simply an agreement on common practices among multiple parties. Standards have been around for a long time – electric current, railroad gauges, the metric system, and even musical notation are examples of standards. However, the processes th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The [SHRAB] serves as a coordinating body to facilitate cooperation among historical records repositories and other information agencies within the state and as a state-level review body for grant proposals as defined in the Commission's guidelines. Sp cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm
Glossary Citation The basic SPINDEX II programs provide for the printing of a register (a formatted, narrative collection description or abstract) and an index. The index provides for a primary sort of keywords, alphabetically or chronologically, and a secondary sort by ei cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:12pm