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Glossary Citation Examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The substance of the text is usually introduced by the exposition, that is the narration of the concrete and immediate circumstances generating the act and/or document. In documents resulting from procedures, whether public or private, the exposition may cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Where an instrument not entitled to be recorded is recorded, it should be expunged or erased from the record, and appropriate proceedings may be maintained to secure its cancellation. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation With a wealth of features, XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML.¶ XHTML 1.0 is the first major change to HTML since HTML 4.0 was released in 1997. It brings the rigor of XML to W cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation XML documents are containers for information. Within the primary container may be information and more containers, which themselves may contain information and more containers. These named containers form neatly hierarchical structures, creating an incr cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Extrinsic elements refer to specific, perceivable features of the record that are instrumental in communicating and achieving the purpose for which it was created. For electronic records, these include: overall presentation features (e.g., textual, graph cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A growing number of archivists are now urging that archival appraisal return to basics and pay more attention to the documentation of program accountability, which suggests that the informational value of information application systems may be eclipsed by cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The secondary value of records can be ascertained most easily if they are considered in relation to two kinds of matters: 1) the evidence they contain of the organization and functions of the Government body that produced them, and 2) the information they cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Whereas the traditional focus of Management Information Systems (MIS) has been on the storage and processing of large amounts of information, the focus of EIS is on the retrieval of specific information about the daily operational status of the organizati cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation In meatspace, we cheerfully extend the notion of authenticity to much more than objects – in fact, we explicitly apply it to the experiential sphere, speaking of an 'authentic' performance of a baroque concerto or an 'authentic' Hawaiian luau. To the exte cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Exploitation cinema arose as an alternative to Hollywood cinema. While the major studios were forced to follow the Motion Picture Production Code, the exploiteers could film virtually anything they wanted, as long as they wrapped their productions in a cl cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation One of the characteristic features of ancient Athenian democracy was its habit of displaying certain types of state documents on stone stelai – large rectangular slabs of marble. . . . Epigraphists who spend their time studying inscriptions have traditio cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Defects or errors in public records may be corrected in order to make them conform to the facts. However, amendments are subject to the rights of third persons. ¶ Those having authority to do so may correct a record in order to make it conform to t cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Over the past several decades, ethylene oxide gained such wide acceptance in the library and archival preservation world, that in spite of the risks its usage presents, it has not been easy to replace with another fumigant. . . . A little over ten years cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The Latin word evidence means 'that which is manifest of in plain sight.' In its metaphoric sense, evidence is that which brings the invisible (that is, a past event) back into plain sight. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The receipt is meant to function as 'proof of purchase,' as evidence that an exchange of money for goods actually took place. Coming into being at the very time and place the food was prepared and the goods were delivered, the receipt serves as witness t cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation [EAD] is intended to provide repositories with a means of establishing an effective, accessible, and stable presence for their holdings information. EAD accommodates variations in the length and content of finding aids within and among repositories, and cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The engrossed copy of a bill that has passed both Houses together with its engrossed amendments is the official working copy from which an enrolled bill is prepared. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation [An enrolled bill is] printed on paper (formerly copied by a clerk in a fair, round hand on parchment) and is signed first by the Speaker of the House and second by the President of the Senate. On the back is an attestation by the Clerk of the House or th cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation An enterprise architecture . . . describes an agency in both 1) logical terms, such as the interrelated business processes and business rules, information needs and flows, and work locations and users; and 2) technical terms, such as hardware, software, d cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation (entities1) The corporate bodies, persons, or families associated in some way with the creation, accumulation, maintenance, and/or use of archival materials. cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Digital records are not simply the 21st century equivalent of traditional paper records. They have other properties, characteristics and applications. However, both digital and paper records must meet the same legal requirements. In practice, this require cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation Congress passed ESIGN in June 2000 to facilitate the use of electronic documents and signatures in domestic interstate and international commercial transactions. The Act was designed to promote the use of electronic signatures in commercial transactions i cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation The goal of government-wide ELF program is to reduce administrative costs by eliminating legal-size paper in favor of letter-size paper. Letter-size records: reduce costs by eliminating the need to purchase file supplies and equipment to accommodate mult cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm
Glossary Citation A proposed approach to the problem of software and hardware dependence is emulation, which aims to preserve the original software environment in which records were created. Emulation mimics the functionality of older software (generally operating systems cp_admin 05/24/2011 - 1:11pm