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The isoperm method arises from one idea: the rate of deterioration of hygroscopic materials such as paper is influenced by the temperature and percent relative humidity of its surrounding environment. The isoperm method combines and quantifies the preser |
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The term 'juridical person' is used in the sense of an entity having the capacity of the potential to act legally and constituted either by a collection or succession of physical persons or a collection of properties. Examples of juridical persons are st |
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The term 'juridical' is broader than the term 'legal.' It refers to the nature of abstract legal concepts. Thus, a 'juridical transaction' is a transaction legally supposed or conceived of, to some extent irrespective of its actual existence, even if it c |
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Within [a juridical system], however much the governing principle changes over time and from place to place, human endeavors always present an organizational, an instrumental, and an executive or a constitutive nature. |
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All record materials having intrinsic value possess one or more of the following specific qualities or characteristics. These qualities or characteristics relate to the physical nature of the records, their prospective uses, and the information they conta |
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In 1979, the concept [of intrinsic value] took on a more central role upon its invocation by the National Archives and Records Service, following the demand of the General Services Agency that the institution microfilm all its records and destroy the orig |
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Inventories1 differ among repositories, but most include an introduction or abstract; a history or biography of the collection's originating agency or individuals; a scope note detailing the size, contents, media, and arrangement of the collection; descri |
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The invocation, that is, the mention of God, in whose name each action had to be done, was present in both public and private documents in the medieval period. It can still be found in documents issued by religious bodies, but more and more rarely. . . . |
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The ITU was founded in 1865 and became a United Nations agency in 1947. It is responsible for adopting international treaties, regulations and standards governing telecommunications. The standardization functions were formerly performed by a group within |
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The abbreviated term internet, uncapitalized, began to be used in the early seventies; it was a shorthand term for the communications circuits and their controlling software which linked together the separate computer networks comprising the US military |
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Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. ¶ At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. . . . the decision wasn't made lightly. Style changes are rarely capricious, since change plays havoc wit |
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Interoperability in the technical sense tackles the problem of digital obsolescence by reducing the dependency of files and records on a particular combination of hardware and software. Interoperability means that a file canbe transferred from one platfor |
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Intrinsic elements are the discursive parts of the record that communicate the action in which the record participates and the immediate context. They fall into three groups: 1) elements that convey aspects of the record's juridical and administrative co |
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The International Council on Archives (ICA) is a decentralized organisation governed by a General Assembly and administered by an Executive Committee. Its branches provide archivists with a regional forum in all parts of the world (except North America); |
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IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession |
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ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 147 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ¶ ISO is a non-governmental organization: its members are |
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Thus the proposed research project, hereinafter called InterPARES 2, aims at developing a theoretical understanding of the records generated by interactive, dynamic, and experiential systems, of their process of creation, and of their present and potentia |
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The InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) Project is a major international research initiative in which archival scholars, computer engineering scholars, national archival institutions and private industr |
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When we say that a digital object has 'integrity,' we mean that it has not been corrupted over time or in transit; in other words, that we have in hand the same set of sequences of bits that came into existence when the object was created. |
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The integrity of a record refers to its wholeness and soundness: a record has integrity when it is complete and uncorrupted in all its essential respects. This does not mean that the record must be precisely the same as it was when first created for its i |
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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 |
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Some, but by no means all, native peoples feel that in certain cases the knowledge recorded in field interviews is proprietary and can endanger users who are not ritualistically prepared to access it. [Note:] This is an emerging ethical issue, often list |
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The right of inspection1 is subject to reasonable rules and regulations as to when, where, and how the inspection may be made, in order to guard against loss or destruction of records, and to avoid unreasonable disruption of the functioning of the office |
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The primary objective of the ICRM is to develop and administer the program for professional certification of records managers, including certification examinations and a certification maintenance program. The ICRM serves as the official certifying body fo |
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In the fall of 2002, something extraordinary occurred in the continuing networked information revolution, shifting the dynamic among individually driven innovation, institutional progress, and the evolution of disciplinary scholarly practices. The develop |
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