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e adoption of open-standard products and formats. Syn.: platform-independent; platform-neutral. [Computer and Information Sciences] Any computer system that involves cryptography. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A chart or table that represents the semantic mapping of fields or data elements in one metadata ...
nt platforms; facilitated by the adoption of open-standard products and formats. Syn.: platform-independent; platform-neutral. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Any computer system that involves cryptography. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A chart or table that represents the semantic mapping of field...
ing information by transforming it (encrypting it) into an unreadable format, called ciphertext. Only those who possess a secret (private) key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into plaintext. [Compute r and Information Sciences] n., [custodians] Persons officially entrusted with guarding and keeping things, such...
on Sciences] n., The person or organization that creates or receives and accumulates documents. [Archives] n., See : active record. [Archives] n., In archives, the individual or agency responsible for creating, receiving, accumulating, or otherwise producing records or n., A person or institution that has charge or...
ds, or with custody or guardianship of people, such as prisoners, inmates, or wards. [Arts] n., In the legal sense, this word means "guardian" or "protector." It is used euphemistically in lay contexts to mean "janitor." [Government] n., n., The basic responsibility for guardianship of records/archives based upon the...
ection of information treated as a unit for storage or use on a computer, especially at the level of the operating system. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Initialism for “digital audio tape.” [Computer and Information Sciences] automatically. [Archives] n., The smallest meaningful units of information. [Ar...
mission, interpretation or processing manually or automatically. [Archives] n., The symbolic representation of facts or ideas, especially when in the form in which it was originally collected and is unanalyzed. [Archives] n., Information, in any form, on which computer programs operate. The distinction between progra...
artridge, data communications, data compression, data name, data protection, data subject, and data type. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Numbers, characters, images, or other method of recording, in a form which can be assessed by a human or (especially) input into a computer, stored and processed there, or t...
nce and due and quantity on hand. However, in common usage, the terms data and information are used synonymously. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Any form of information whether in paper or electronic form. In electronic form, data refers to the files and databases, text documents, images and digitally-encoded...
ta is distinguished from other contrasting forms of information on which computers operate, such as text, graphics, speech, and image. The distinguishing characteristic is that it is organized in a structured, repetitive, and often compressed way. Typically the structure takes the form of sets of fields, where the fiel...
only a very limited meaning can be attached to “1234” unless you know that it occupies the “employee number” field). That characteristic gives rise to the popular fallacy that “data is meaningless”. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Numbers, characters, images or other methods of recording that represent values ...
ormation in the structured table of data elements. [Computer and Information Sciences] The smallest meaningful units of information. [Archives] n., The organization of data within files, usually designed to facilitate the storage, retrieval, processing, presentation, or transmission of the data by software. [Compute...
ences] n., The basic responsibility for guardianship of records/archives based upon their physical possession but not necessarily implying legal title. [Archives] n., The registration of digital entities into a logical name space. Manipulations of registered material can then b [ automated through any standard comput...
ny standard computer application programming interface (API). [Archives] n., The system of data objects which provide the methods for information storage and retrieval. Broadly, a data hiera rchy may be considered to be either natural or machine. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The product of the database des...
d, and how the items in the database will be related to each other. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The product of the database design process which aims to identify and organize the required data logically and physically. A data model says what information is to be contained in a database, how the informatio...
about which information is to be held in a datab ase and which the logical schema for that database encodes. The term data model (or data modeling method) is also used for a set of logical abstractions employed in constructing such a model. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A grammar of metadata language; a form...
ments refer. [General Dictionaries] data type v., The systematic performance of a single operation or sequence of operations by one or more central processing units on data converted to machine-readable format to achieve the result for which the computer program that controls the processing was written. [Computer and...
gibility of the recovered data or records. Syn.: digital archaeology. [Computer and Information Sciences] data restoration n., A sequence of digitally encoded signals used to represent information in transmission. Also spelled “datastream.” [Computer and Information Sciences] n., An abstract model of some real-world...
so used for a set of logical abstractions employed in constructing such a model. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The representation of information according to preset specifications (e.g., plaintext files, HTML, TIFF, etc.). [Computer and Information Sciences] relationships between different types of elements...
nd extracted by a number of different applications programs or query languages. [General Dictionaries] n., A large collection of information that has been coded and stored in a computer in such a way that it can be extracted under a number of different category headings. [Sciences] n., A structured assembly of logic...
applications but managed independently of them. [Archives] n., [databases] Structured assemblies of logically related data, usually machine-readable data, designed to meet various applications but managed independently of them. [Arts] n., Information that is accessed and updated through software (a database managemen...
a particular purpose or for the use of a particular set of end users, usually organized via fields, and providing tools to enable manipulation of the data such as sorting, grouping and extraction. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Normally and strictly, a body of information held within a computer system using ...
e log file, database recovery, and multiaccess control. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A set of interrelated files that is created and managed by a DBMS (Database Management System). [Computer and Information Sciences] n., One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software...
ter and Information Sciences] n., An organized collection of information held on a computer. [Government] n., Any collection of information, automated or not, without regard to how it is accessed or stored. [General Dictionaries] n., A (large) collection of data items and links between them, structure in a way that ...
lection of information, automated or not, without regard to how it is accessed or stored. [General Dictionaries] See : chronological date. [Archives] n., The date, and possibly the time, a record has been written, included in the record by the author or the electronic system on the author’s behalf. [Archives] date o...
The date the record is received by the agency to which it was sent. [Archives] date of document n., The date assigned to it by the author. [Archives] n., The date assigned to it by the author. It appears in the intellectual form of the record. [Archives] n., n., The date the record leaves the space in which it w...
ard. [Government] The date the record leaves the space in which it was generated. [Archives] n., A standard issued by an official standards-setting body, whether national (e.g., ANSI), multi-national (e.g., CEN) or international (e.g., ISO). [Government] An identified document, made or received by the creator, whi...
an official standards-setting body, whether national (e.g., ANSI), multi-national (e.g., CEN) or international (e.g., ISO). [Government] v., Returning a compressed image or compressed data to its uncompressed form. Some compression methods lose information so that the uncompressed image or data is not equivalent to t...
draft, original and copy. [Archives] digital audio tape n., Arranged records for which information about their nature, make-up and contexts (juridical-administrative, provenancial, procedural, documentary and technological) are recorded to facilitate administrative and intellectual control. [Archives] digital compon...
n or matter itself (disposition) as expressed in the content of the record. [Archives] description of action or matter n., A tool prepared in the course of archival description and indexing of records for the purposes of administrative and intellectual control. [Archives] See n., The entity responsible for taking ph...
hould be that of a trusted custodian for a creator’s records.S yn.: designated preserver; preserver. [Archives] : data restoration [Computer and Information Sciences] Analyse, define and document the requirements for presenting records and their aggregates, based upon the guideline s for organizing them, so they can ...
oncrete reason (exposition) for the action as well as the action or matter itself (disposition) as expressed in the content of the record. [Archives] a., The representation of an object or physical process through discrete, binary values. In contrast to an ana logue representation of an object or physical process, a d...
lly binary digits or in similar discrete form. n., Representing data as discrete variables in the form of numerical characters, as in a digital clock or a digital comp uter. n., (DAT) A type of magnetic digital medium that can store up to 4 gigabytes of digital data per cassette by using helical scan recording. [Comp...
upon the guidelines for organizing them, so they can be presented to fulfill requests for records or record aggregates in ways that reflects their interrelationships. [Models (BDR)] n., (DAT) A type of magnetic digital medium that can store up to 4 gigabytes of digital data per cassette by using helical scan re cordi...
t is part of one or more digital documents, and the metadata necessary to order, structure or manifest its content and form, requiring a given preservation action. [Archives] n., A digital object that contains all or part of the content of an electronic record, and/or metadata necessary to order, structure, or manifes...
nformation, expressed as binary bits that are digitally encoded and affixed to a digital medium. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A discrete aggregation of one or more bitstreams and the metadata about the properties of the object and, if applicable, methods of performing operations on the object. [General Dict...
ore up to 35 gigabytes of digital data per cassette by using longitudinal recording. [Computer and Information Sciences] v., The use of discrete numeric values (such as the binary values 0 and 1) rather than a continuous spectrum of value s (such as those generated by an analogue system). [Computer and Information Sci...
or abstract digital construct. [Archives] n., Any aggregation of data. [Archives] Any aggregation of data. [Archives] n., The byte-serialized encoding of a digital object that defines the syntactic and semantic rules for the mapping from an inform ation model to a byte stream and the inverse mapping from that byte ...
c. However, there are some contexts, “such as the network transport of formatted content streams or consideration of content streams at a level of granularity finer than that of an entire file, where specific reference to “file” is inappropriate.”S yn.: digital presentation. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A u...
igabytes of digital data per cassette by using longitudinal recording. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A digital object that contains all or part of the content of an electronic record, and/or metadata necessary to order, structure, or manifest the content, and that requires specific methods for preservation o...
rete aggregation of one or more bitstreams and the metadata about the properties of the object and, if applicable, methods of performing operations on the object. [General Dictionaries] n., In the technical sense, a type of data structure consisting of digital content, a unique identifier for the content (called a "ha...
tal information that includes properties of the object and may also include methods of performing operations on the object. [General Dictionaries] digital document n., See : digital format [Computer and Information Sciences] diplomatics v., The specific process of maintaining digital materials during and across dif...
. [Archives] n., A record whose content and form are encoded using discrete numeric values (such as the binary values 0 and 1) rather than a continuous spectrum of values (such as those generated by an analogue system). n., A record that has been captured and fixed for storage and manipulation in a computer system an...
function of a signature in, is attached to, or is logically associated with a record, and is used by a signatory to take responsibility for, or to give consent to, the content of the record. [Archives] n., A code, generally created using a public key infrastructure (PKI), that is associated with a digital object that...
e that cannot be forged. It is a computed digest of the text that is encrypted with the sender p rivate key and sent along with the text message. The recipient decrypts the signature with the sender’s public key and recomputes the digest from the received text. If the digests match, the message is authenticated and pro...
f electronic documents. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Extra data appended to a message which identifies and authenticates the sender and message data using public-key encryption. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Data appended to a unit of data held on a computer, or a cryptographic transformation of a...
tion and protection. An electronic signature, as defined by the Electronic Communications Act 2000, has a similar effect in relation to a commercial agreement. [Government] object has not been altered and, in some contexts, may be used to authenticate the identity of the sender. [Computer and n., Any system handling ...
ty and integrity of n., A binary code attached to a record indicating the time that an event occurred, such as creation, receipt, reading, modification or deletion. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Extra data appended to a message which identifies and authenticates the sender and message data using public-key e...
s or grooves that are cut and read by a laser beam. Its logical format specifications are governed by the Universal Disk Format (UDF) specification.S yn.: digital versatile disc. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Data appended to a unit of data held on a computer, or a cryptographic transformation of a data unit...
creator, in order to identify, evaluate, and communicate their true nature. [Archives] n., The science dealing with the types and elements of documents. [Archives] n., The study of the creation, forms, and transmission of records, and their relationship to the facts represented in them and to their creator, in orde...
previous centuries. [Archives] [Archives] n., An order or instruction, especially one issued by an agency, corporate body, organization or other central authority. [Government] n., The study of the creation, forms, and transmission of records, and their relationship to the facts represented in them and to their crea...
aisal. [Archives] n., [diplomatics] An intrinsic element of documentary form that comprises the core of the text of a document narrating the expression of the will of the author and the action of the record. [Archives] n., The actions taken with regard to non-current records following their appraisal and the expirati...
rchives] n., [records schedules] Documents describing the recurring records of an organization or administrative unit, specifying those records to be preserved as having archival value, and authorizing, on a continuing basis and after the lapse of specified retention periods and the occurrence of specified actions or ...
unison register of a harpsichord is usually designated as 1 × 8'; an octave higher (the four foot) as 1 × 4'. A three-register harpsichord with two unisons and an octave would be designated 2 × 8', 1 × 4'. [Arts] n., The action taken after the appraisal of non-current documents. This may include transfer to a records ...
r's care or possession, esp. by deed or will; the relinquishing of property. [Government] n., Disposal; disposition. Both mean generally "a getting rid of," but "disposal" has more often to do with trash or inconsequential items, whereas "disposition" is used of assets given to relatives and friends by will. "Disposit...
constituting a juridical act. [Archives] disposition n., A retrospective record whose purpose is to put into existence an act, the effects of which are determined by the writing itself; that is, the written form of the record is the essence and substance of the act. With enabling, instructive, narrative, probative a...
.” [Computer and Information Sciences] n., An indivisible unit of information constituted by a message affixed to a medium (recorded) in a stable syntactic manner. A document has fixed form and stable content. [Archives] n., Recorded information or object which can be treated as a unit. [Archives] n., Recorded info...
s] n., A single archival, record or manuscript item. Usually physically indivisible. [Archives] n., Information that has been fixed in written form. [Archives] n., Refers especially to recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics, whether created specifically as records of information or used as such...
or microform versions but also nonprint media and, in some circumstances, three-dimensional objects or realia. [Arts] n., A single record or item. Examples include: a sheet of paper with writing; an E-Mail message; a film with images; a magnetic tape with a sound recording. [Arts] n., A single component or entity in ...
apable of being printed. E.g. "Word document", "Photoshop document", etc. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A generic term for a physical entity consisting of any substance on which is recorded all or a portion of one or more works for the purpose of conveying or preserving knowledge. [Computer and Information S...
have other attributes attached to it, such as a brief description of what it contains and who composed it. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Something that records or transmits information, typically in writing on paper. For the purposes of providing evidence to a court, documents include books, maps, plans, dr...
ecific purpose that includes content and structure, and may include context. [General Dictionaries] n., Something that records or transmits information, typically in writing on paper. For the purposes of providing evidence to a court, documents include books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, graphs, discs, tapes, s...
ntent and structure, and may include context. [General Dictionaries] n., (DTD) A formal specification that contains or points to the syntactic rules according to which an SGML-compliant document can be composed. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., (DTD) The definition of a document type in SGML or XML, consisting...
ves] document type definition n., The rules of representation according to which the content of a record, its administrative and documentary context, and its authority are communicated. Documentary form possesses both extrinsic and intrinsic elements.S yn.: documentary presentation. [Archives] n., Rules that structu...
rm [Archives] n., (DTD) A formal specification that contains or points to the syntactic rules according to which an SGML-compliant document can be composed. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The body of rules governing the making of an archival document. The more standardized and rigorous the procedure, t he mo...
e record is presumed to be. [Archives] n., All material that serves primarily to describe a system and make it more readily understandable, rather than to contribute in some way to the actual operation of the system. Documentation is frequently classified according to purpose; thus for a given system there may be requ...
m that are of interest to end-users. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The organization and processing of documents or data including location, identification, acquisition, analysis, storage, retrieval, presentation and circulation for the information of users. [Archives] n., Use broadly for the gathering and r...
nformation, regardless of medium or characteristics, either created specifically as records of information or used as such at some time subsequent to their creation, use "documents." [Arts] Initialism for “dynamic random-access memory.” [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The aggregation of all the records th...
, project, or other subject. A case file is sometimes referred to as a project file or dossier. [Archives] n., The smallest interrelated aggregation of records, usually named after the person, activity, or subject to whi ch it refers. A dossier should not be confused with a folder. A dossier is a conceptual unit aggr...
across a number of folders. [Archives] n., A group of documents assembled to provide information about a specific topic. [General Dictionaries] n., The aggregation of all the documents related to the same affair. [Archives] n., A record made for purposes of correction. [Archives] n., A rough or preliminary form of...
Arts] n., A version of a document, in handwritten, typed, printed, or digital form, not intended to be final but instead subject to future modification (correction, revision, etc.), sometimes by a person or persons other than the original author. See also: bill. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., An initial unsi...
in the document. [General Dictionaries] n., A version of a text or image, especially a preliminary version to be further revised. [General Dictionaries] n., The organization and processing of documents or data including location, identification, acquisition, analysis, storage, retrieval, presentation and circulation ...
ords of information or used as such at some time subsequent to their n., Initialism for “document type definition.” [Computer and Information Sciences] draft See : copy duplicate n., The encoding of digital documents or other digital objects to conform to well-known data processing standards down to the level of e...
Sciences] e-government n., Flexible and adaptable approaches to tailoring computing resources to demands. [Computer and Information Sciences] effective record n., (DRAM) A type of semiconductor memory in which the information is stored in capacitors on a metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuit. Due to leakage ...
ences] dynamic computing n., A record the content of which is dependent upon data that might have variable instantiations and be held in databases and spreadsheets internal or external to the system in which the record is generated. [Archives] n., A document that includes content taken from external sources that ch...
ithmic programming and mathematical system capabilities, as expressed i n this statement: "The identification of dynamic systems concerns the definition of a mathematical model which behaves like a process solely on the basis of its measurements" [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Flexible and adaptable approache...
ral Dictionaries] n., The use of information technologies, especially the Internet to improve government services for and interactions with citizens (G2C) , businesses and industry (G2B), and different division of government (G2G) by simplifying processes, and by integrating and eliminating redundant systems. [General...
the consequences or producing the effects for which it was intended. Wit h completeness and primitiveness, a quality presented by an original record. [Archives] n., The capacity to be effective, i.e. to reach the purpose for which the object was generated. [General Dictionaries] n., n., The use of information techno...
ng processes, and by integrating and eliminating redundant systems. [General Dictionaries] n., Services on the net, that are customer (citizen/business) oriented and not service provider oriented. It is service delivery independent of place and time. And it is hopefully a single interface to government. [General Dictio...
ource. [General Dictionaries] n., Services based on Internet technologies. This involves IP networking, WWW technologies and standard browsers for easy and flexible access to information and to interactive services. [General Dictionaries] n., Government use of the web to enhance information access and service deliver...
ated by an electronic device. [Arts] electronic n., A science that deals with transformation of sound energy into electric energy and vice versa. [General Dictionaries] electronic record n., Device or technology associated with or employing low voltage current and solid state integrated circuits or components, usu...
an think of computer memory as an array of storage boxes, each of which is one byte in length. Each box has an address (a unique number) assigned to it. By specifying a memory address, programmers can access a particular byte of data. Disks are divided into tracks and sectors, each of which has a unique address. [Compu...
has a unique address called a URL. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Device or technology associated with or employing low voltage current and solid state integrated circuits or components, usually for transmission and/or processing of analogue or digital data. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., An analog...
] Records/archives usually in code, recorded on a medium such as a magnetic disc, magnetic tape, punched card, whose contents are accessible only by machine and organized in accordance with the principle of provenance. [Archives] n., A record which is in electronic form. [Archives] n., Information that has been capt...
e media. [Archives] n., A record that has been made or received, and fixed for storage and manipulation in a computer system and that requires t he use of the system to be intelligible by a person. [Archives] n., Bibliographic or archival records stored on a medium, such as magnetic tape/disk or optical disk, that re...
and manipulation in an automated system and that requires the used of the system to render it intelligible by a person. [Archives] n., A means of authenticating a record and its author or a means of protecting the confidentiality of the record by ensuring that the record is only opened by the intended addressee. It i...
tal mark that has the function of a signature in, is attached to, or is logically associated with a record, and is used by a signatory to take responsibility for, or to give consent to, the content of the record. [Archives] n., A digital mark, code, or other symbol that identifies an individual and indicates responsib...
ument (such as a contract or other record) and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. Types of electronic signatures include a typed name at the end of an e-mail, a digital image of a handwritten signature, and the click of an "I accept" button on an e-commerce site. [Government] typed n...
sses, or stores records by using a computer. Often called an automated information system. [Government] e-mail n., A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. [General Dictionaries] element set n., A constituent part of the record’s documentary form, visible on the face of the recor...
eral Dictionaries] n., Collections of objects or elements that have at least one characteristic in common. For example, the set X may consist of all the elements x1, x2, x3, etc. This is written {x1, x2, x3,…} = X. [Sciences] A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. [General Diction...
[Computer and Information Sciences] n., Messages, documents, etc., sent between users of computer systems, the computer systems being used to transp ort and hold the e-mail. [Sciences] n., A means for an originator of information to distribute information to an unlimited number of recipients via a val ue added netwo...
ms over telephone lines. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., A means of transmitting correspondence over telephone lines, cable lines and/or computer networks or of relaying messages via satellite networks. [General Dictionaries] n., The transmission of messages over communications networks. Language designation ...
., A file that is linked to and is transmitted along with an e-mail message. The attached file can be of any type. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The transmission of messages over communications networks. Language designation refers to the language of the host site. n., The reproduction of the behaviour and r...
on. [General Dictionaries] n., A process of imitation, which is a frequent feature accompanying competition. Customs, buildings, and artifacts in one society may be adopted by neighbouring ones through imitation, which is often competitive in nature. [Sciences] n., Moving the information to new hardware but with a a...
er, though perhaps not at the same speed. A typical example would be emulation of one computer by (a program running on) another. You might use an emulation as a replacement for a system whereas you would use a simulation if you just wanted to analyse it and make predictions about it. [Computer and Information Sciences...
on a given computer of a program written for a different computer, accepting the identical data and producing the identical results. Emulation is thus the imitation of all or part of one computer system by another system. It may be achieved by software, microprogram, or hardware. A particular emulation could be used a...
the old one will run without modification. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The use of one system to reproduce the behaviours and results of another system. [General Dictionaries] entity n., A prospective record encoded in machine language that is actively involved in carrying out an action or process. With ...
r digital object and the means of providing access to it, normally in a wrapper that describes what it is in a way that can be understood by a wide range of technologies (such as an XML document). [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The technique used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information t...
r (IP), followed by a header from the transport layer (TCP), followed by the application protocol data. [Computer and Information Sciences] entity type n., The representation of symbols in some alphabet by symbols or strings of symbols in some other alphabet. [Computer and Information Sciences] encapsulation n., Th...
o ciphertext so that it can be read only by those who know the cipher to unscramble the message. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., The mechanism of coding data transmitted by various telecommunications systems so that only authorized users may have access to it. [Computer and Information Sciences] n., Any proced...