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Glossary Citation Copyright law delineates a bundle of exclusive rights that could conceivably be expressed in a DRM system. The extent of these rights, however, is limited by several exceptions, and it is harder to program in exceptions. One such exception is the fair us cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A digital code that can be attached to an electronically transmitted message that uniquely identifies the sender. Like a written signature, the purpose of a digital signature is to guarantee that the individual sending the message really is who he or she cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Descriptive metadata refers to information that supports discovery and identification of a resource (the who, what, when and where of a resource). It describes the content of the resource, associates various access points, and describes how the resource i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Morris and his successor, Nathaniel Holmes Morison, carefully compiled massive desiderata – or wish lists – of books for the library. Publishing these lists in bound form, they sent them out to booksellers, bibliophiles, and librarians all over America an cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A certificate document in the form of a digital data object (a data object used by a computer) to which is appended a computed digital signature value that depends on the data object. ¶ [Deprecated] ISDs SHOULD NOT use this term to refer to a signed cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation An electronic data object that represents information originally written in a non-electronic, non-magnetic medium (usually ink on paper) or is an analogue of a document of that type. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Digital entities are 'images of reality,' made of: data, the bit (zeros and ones) put on a storage system; information, the semantics used to assign semantic meaning to the data; knowledge, the structural relationships described by a data model. ¶ E cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Introduction for Form of Names. ¶ Part III of this standard provides information about creating standardized forms for the names of persons, families, or corporate bodies associated with archival materials as the creators, custodians, or subjects of cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation In the 1980s and early 1990s, the Society of American Archivists' Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts and the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD) codified archival practice and established the elements needed to represent a fonds or colle cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation In the 1930s in Europe, description began to be seen as a means for making the user independent of the archivists specialized knowledge, and to be aimed primarily at compiling 'instruments of research' for the user, not the archivist. Moreover, the descr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Metadata systems capture and communicate information about transactions and the context in which they occur within an electronic record system. . . . Description, on the other hand, captures and communicates knowledge about the broad administrative and do cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation [Yahoo!] introduced its Content Acquisition Program designed to index the billions of documents contained in public databases but that are commonly inaccessible to search engines, or what's called the invisible or deep Web. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Deletion is the process whereby data is removed from active files and other data storage structures on computers and rendered inaccessible except using special data recovery tools designed to recover deleted data. Deletion occurs in several levels on mode cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be rec cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Introduction to Describing Archival Materials. ¶ Part I of this standard contains rules to ensure the creation of consistent, appropriate, and self-explanatory descriptions of archival material. The rules may be used for describing archival and manus cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Introduction to Describing Creators. ¶ It is insufficient for the archivist simply to include the name of the creator in the title of the description of the materials. Additional information is required regarding the persons, families, and corporate cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Bill Inmon, the recognized father of the data warehousing concept, defines a data warehouse as a subject-orientated, integrated, time variant, non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision-making process. Another data warehousing pio cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Two books were required: a book of original entry called a 'day book' in which transactions were entered in chronological order, and a 'ledger' in which transactions were entered under individual accounts as debits ('Dr.') and credits ('Cr.'). The terms cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Deaccessioning would ideally be a regular feature of collections management, a routine procedure that allows institutions to deal with out-of-scope materials that have been determined to be unworthy of continued retention through reappraisal. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A shortcoming of the original DSS systems was that they were developed by different business units, resulting in disagreement between users on data definitions. Thus, no organisational view on data existed. These different data definitions also lead to i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Statements that . . . allow for deaccessioning should be included in the deed of gift. As [Gerald] Ham notes, 'donor agreements cannot become the dead hand of the past; they must contain some option for reappraisal and deaccessioning.' cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The framework for organizing and defining the interrelationships of data in support of an organization's missions, functions, goals, objectives, and strategies. Data architectures provide the basis for the incremental, ordered design and development of s cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Developed in the late 1960s the purpose of such a dictionary was originally simply to assist in the maintenance of large-scale data-processing systems. The idea was further developed in the 1970s with the advent of special-purpose software systems to main cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The nontrivial explication or extraction of information from data, in which the information is implicit and previously unknown; an example is identification of the pattern of use of a credit card to detect possible fraud. The data is normally accessed fro cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Data processing is a widely used term with a variety of meanings and interpretations ranging from one that makes it almost coextensive with all of computing . . . to much narrower connotations in the general area of computer applications to business and a cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm