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n., The representation of symbols in some alphabet by symbols or strings of symbols in some other alphabet. [Computer
and Information Sciences]
n., [diplomatics] An intrinsic element of documentary form that comprises the name, title, capacity and address of the
physical or juridical person issuing the document, o... |
tive, instructive, narrative, probative and supporting, one of six functional categories of records. [Archives]
n.,
A real or abstract thing. [Archives]
n., In Geographic Information Systems, a thing that exists such as a building or a lake, which is distinguishable from another entity, cannot be divided into two or... |
ces]
n., In programming, any item, such as a data item or statement, that can be named or denoted in a program. [Computer and
Information Sciences]
n., The process of encoding plaintext into ciphertext so that it can be read only by those who know the cipher to unscramble the
message. [Computer and Information Scienc... |
nformation Sciences]
n., [documentary form] The final part of the document, which contains the documentary context of the action and the final formulae. [Archives]
intended recipient from reading that data. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., All the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which ... |
tends to prove the existence or nonexistence of some fact. It may consist of testimony, documentary evidence,
real evidence, and, when admissible, hearsay evidence. [Government]
n., A record, an object, testimony, or other material that is used to prove or disprove a fact. [General Dictionar
ies]
n., Secondary users ... |
ecution phase of an administrative procedure and to which metadata th
at convey the actions taken during the course of the procedure have been attached, such as priority of transmission, transmission date, time and/or place, actions taken, etc. [Archives]
n., A record that has participated in the execution phase of an... |
nd/or place, actions taken, etc. [Archives]
n., An addition made to a record, after its creation, as part of the document execution phase of an administrative procedu
re. [Archives]
n., [diplomatics] An element of the documentary form of a record that constitutes its external appearance. The types of
extrinsic elemen... |
nstituted by all the actions (validation, communication, notification, publication)
that give formal character to the transaction and the resulting record. [Archives]
n., An administrative procedure constituted by all the actions (validation, communication, notification, publication) that
give formal character to the... |
vernment]
n.,
A system which immerses the user in a sensory experience. [General Dictionaries]
n., Objects whose essence goes beyond the bits that constitute the object to incorporate the behaviour of the rendering system, or
at least the interaction between the object and the rendering system. [Archives]
expositi... |
r the document. [Archives]
executed record
n., (XML) A general-purpose specification for creating custom, cross-platform, text-based, markup languages used both to encode documents and to serialize data; a subset of General Standardized Markup Language (SGML) with use and design similar to Hypertext Markup Language (... |
ement
n., Secondary users (e.g., journalists, researchers and other external users) who are allowed to access the records creator's recordkeeping system on-line. [Archives]
experiential system
n., [diplomatics] An element of the documentary form of a record that constitutes its external appearance. The types of extr... |
ble features of the record that are instrumental in communicating and achieving the purpose for which it was created. [Archives]
file
n., A condition or event that exists, as distinguished from its effects, consequences, or interpretations, such as a state of things or a motion. [General Dictionaries]
n., An event o... |
performed or incident transpiring; an event or circumstance; an actual occurrence; an actual
happening in time, space, or an event mental or physical. [General Dictionaries]
n., A condition or event that exists, as distinguished from its effects, consequences, or interpretations, such as a state of
things or a motion... |
a number of characters, bytes, words, or codes that are treated together, e.g., to form a
number, a name, or an address. [Computer and Information Sciences]
a., The determination that the digital components conferring identity and ensuring the integrity of the things you want to
preserve can indeed be preserved give... |
roject,
or other subject. Syn.: dossier. [Archives]
n., An item of data consisting of a number of characters, bytes, words, or codes that are treated together, e.g., to form a number, a name, or an address. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., In Geographic Information Systems, a group of one or more characters in... |
ak field has a "hot spot" in the centre of the beam. A flat field is essential when using gobos.
[Arts]
n., Used in videotape. Videotape runs 30 frames per second. Each frame has two fields, one which scans odd lines and one which
scans even lines. [Arts]
n., An area of a database record, or graphical user interface... |
as a single descriptive element;
it may be allocated a unique identification symbol in the record format. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A collection of documents usually related in some way, stored together, and arranged in a systematic order. In computing, a
n., The aggregation of all the records that part... |
participate in the same action/affair or relate to the
same person or subject, so that they may be retrieved for action or reference. [General Dictionaries]
n., A collection of data stored in a computer. It may consist of program instructions or numerical, textual, or graphical information
. It usually consists of a ... |
etc.) of documents grouped together either for current use or in the process of archival arrangement. [Archives]
n., In machine-readable records/archives, two or more records of identical layout treated as a unit. The unit is larger than a
record but smaller than a data system, and is also known as a data set or file ... |
ubject. Syn.: dossier. [Archives]
n., A collection of information, referred to by file name; for example, a user-created document, program data, or the program
itself. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A collection of documents usually related in some way, stored together, and arranged in a systematic order. In... |
Zip disk, etc.). [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., An element of data storage in a file system. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n.,
v.,
Something that is used to support an understanding or argument. [General Dictionaries]
Arranging and sorting documents so that they may be retrieved rapidly when needed... |
, usually designed to facilitate the storage, retrieval, processing, presentation an
d/or transmission of the data by software. [Archives]
n., The way in which the information in a file is encoded. There are many proprietary formats – nearly every application has its own, often changing with new versions – as well as ... |
ems it is up to the user to know what the format is, although there are more-or-less strict file-naming conventions. The multiplicity of file formats is a continuing problem for both software developers and users. [Computer and Information Sciences]
depicted as folders (like small briefcases). [Computer and Informatio... |
he rights of third parties, attest the execution of required formalities, or indicate the means employed to give the document probative value. [Archives]
Information Sciences]
n., The documentary form that a record has when it is open for the first time upon receipt or after having been captured and dec
lared as a re... |
output is created, it is immutable. If it needs to be changed, either an update must be appended or a new version must be created. [Archives]
n., The way in which the information in a file is encoded. There are many proprietary formats – nearly every application has its
own, often changing with new versions – as well ... |
ystems it is up to
the user to know what the format is, although there are more-or-less strict file-naming conventions. The multiplicity of file
formats is a continuing problem for both software developers and users. [Computer and Information Sciences]
a., The quality of a record that makes it immutable and requires c... |
n chronological order. A dossier may be distributed across a number of folders. [Archives]
n., A folded sheet of cardboard or heavy paper serving as a cover for a file or a number of documents. [Archives]
n., [folders] Folded sheets of light cardboard used to cover or hold papers, letters, or other flat documents, as... |
and provide a graphical file browser in which directories are traditionally
depicted as folders (like small briefcases). [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., In the Macintosh and Windows 95, a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. [Computer and
Information Sciences] The quality of ... |
or activity; the
highest-level archival aggregation.S yn.: archives [records]; archival fonds. [Archives]
n., The whole of the records created (meaning made or received and set aside for action or reference) by a physical or
juridical person in the course of carrying out its activities. [Archives]
n., The whole of... |
m, organically created and/or accumulated and used by a parti
cular
person, family, or corporate body in the conduct of personal or corporate activity. [Archives]
n., The whole of the do cuments t ha t ev ery organiz ation or physi cal or jurid ical pe rson accumulat es by reason of its fu
nction of activity. ... |
to designate the documents created or accumulated and used by a particular individual, organization, or other entity that
are kept together within a larger collection. [Arts]
are kept together within a larger collection. [Arts]
n.,
Rules of representation that determine the appearance of an entity and convey its me... |
document, printed or otherwise produced, with predesignated spaces for the recording of specified information. [Archives]
n., All the characteristics of a record determined by the application of the rules of representation of content typical of a given environment. Form breaks down into physical form, the characterist... |
chives]
n., The structure and design of a composition. [Arts]
n., Term applied to such aspects of a work of art as internal organization and shape, often used with some degree of distinction
from the subject-matter, content, function and style of works of art. [Arts]
n., Used with reference to works of art and archi... |
ctionary, or the literary form in
which it is written, as drama, poetry, etc. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., The data structure within a computer system representing the final result to be printed or displayed. [Computer and
Information Sciences]
n., A page of printer media. [Computer and Information Science... |
a document. [Archives]
n., Any particular physical representation of a document. [Archives]
n., In automatic data processing, the arrangement of data. [Archives]
n., Width to height ratio of the film as it is projected on the screen. [Arts]
n., In the context of bibliographic control, the formalised structure in w... |
hat it is ready to receive
data. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., The layout or presentation of items in a machine-readable form according to hardware and software requirements. [Computer
and Information Sciences]
n.,n., [diplomatics] An intrinsic element of documentary form that comprises a sentence declaring... |
serve as a support or
guide for the design, implementation and maintenance of an integrated system. [General Dictionaries]
n., A basic conceptual structure of rules, policies, procedures, tools and mechanisms intended to serve as a support or
guide for the design, implementation and maintenance of an integrated syst... |
gis
n.,
A rule that guides the design of the record-making, recordkeeping, and permanent preservation system. [Archives]
function
v., To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. [Computer and Information Sciences]
functionality
n.,
Al... |
The goal to which an institution addresses its activity and produces the relative records. The function is the scope of an
activity; the jurisdiction indicates the territory and the sector of competence to pursue a function. [Archives]
n., All of the acts aimed to accomplish one purpose within a given jurisdiction or... |
lly accepting one or more data values as input and, based on a manipul
ation of
]
the input values, returning a single output value. [Archives]
n., [functions] Areas of responsibility in which activities are conducted in order to accomplish a purpose. [Arts]
n., The capabilities or behaviours of a computer program, p... |
as the sum of its features. [Co
mputer and Information Sciences]
n., Features built into a search interface that determine the ease with which users may formulate queries and obtain
results. [Computer and Information Sciences]
v., To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be rel... |
certain known source. [Archives] A digital mapping used for exploration, demographics, dispatching and tracking. [General Dictionaries]
n., The quali ty of a rec or d that is truly w hat i t purports to be. T he tw o conc epts t hat allow for the indi rect asses
sment and verification of the genuineness of a record... |
onsisting of hardware, software, geographic information, procedures and personnel designed to facilitate the efficient capture, storage, maintenance, manipulation, analysis, querying and display of spatially-referenced (geospatial) data from a wide variety of data sources in a wide variety of data formats—such as maps,... |
to a system of coordinates (latitude, longitude, elevation or depth, etc.). [Sciences]
n.,
A digital mapping used for exploration, demographics, dispatching and tracking. [General Dictionaries]
n., 1. The activities of an organization or individual performed to accomplish some mandate or mission. – 2. Computing •
I... |
te made between lines or in the margin of a document. [Archives]
html
n., A record that represents an object or outline of a figure, plan, or sketch by means of lines. A representation of an object formed by drawing. [Archives]
n.,
A broad class of records that are primarily images, as distinguished from textual re... |
ctives, formulated by a body with authority to speak on the subject but less binding than a directive or formal standard. [General Dictionaries]
html document
n., The office (or officer) formally competent for carrying out the action to which the record relates or for the matter to which the record pertains. Syn.: ha... |
tters) of a hard material capable of storing a large quantity of digital data, which (typically) resides permanently within a computer. Syn.: hard drive. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A legal provision excluding testimony that is based on second-hand, rather than personal, knowledge (hearsay).
[Archives]
n.... |
ying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to p
rove the truth of the matter asserted. [Government]
n., The rule that no assertion offered as testimony can be received unless it is or has been open to test by cross-examin
ation or an
opportunity for cross-examination, except as provided otherwise by the rules o... |
in a Document Type Definition (DTD) or a schema document. [Computer and Information
Sciences]
n., A group of related entities, or information about the entities, within a system arranged in a graded order, typic
ally from the most general to the most specific. [General Dictionaries]
n.,n., A need to provide and rece... |
and evaluation of the past. [Archives]
n., A statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth
of the matter asserted. [Government]
Initialism for “Hypertext Markup Language.”
opportunity for cross-examination, except as provided otherwi... |
bed in a Document Type Definition (DTD) or a schema document. [Computer and Information Sciences]
idef0
n., A document or code that can be read by a human being, with or without the aid of magnification, as opposed to one in a format that can be read only by a computer. [Computer and Information Sciences]
identify
... |
ext in a document by a different colour, by
underlining, or by both. [Computer and Information Sciences]
imitative copy
n., (HTML) A cross-platform, text-based, markup language used to define a single, fixed type of document with markup tags that structure the layout, styling and display of text and provide some prov... |
tion modeling method.”
n.,
A method designed to model the decisions, actions, and activities of an organization or system. [Models (MCP)]
n., Terms, such as acronyms, projects, proper names of persons, geographical locations, the number of a patent's
specification or of a national standard, or any part or a bibliogr... |
dentity metadata (e.g., persons, actions and dates of compilation) have been
attached. [Models (MCP)]
n., The whole of the characteristics of a document or a record that uniquely identify it and distinguish it from any other
document or record. With integrity, a component of authenticity. [Archives]
n., Terms, such ... |
mes, and trade names which
provide subject indexing, in addition to descriptors. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A document or code that can be read by a human being, with or without the aid of magnification, as opposed to one
in a format that can be read only by a computer. [Computer and Information Sciences... |
[Archives]
underlining, or by both. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., The whole of the characteristics of a document or a record that uniquely identify it and distinguish it from any other document or record. With integrity, a component of authenticity. [Archives] n., The definition and status of individuals an... |
contemporary cultures and the extent to which material culture is used to signal differences between social groups. [Sciences]
n., The way in which achaeological remains are widely used in order to promote and support particular views of contemporary
personal, local, regional, and national identity, especially through... |
or many generations. [Sciences]
n., The characteristics determining the individuality of a being or entity; in the constitution of national identities these
characteristics may be fostered by myths. [Sciences]
n., Those characteristics or conditions of a thing, person, or group that remain the same amid change or tha... |
nment]
n., A copy that reproduces both the content and form of the record, but in such a way that it is always possible to tell the copy from the original. [Archives]
n.,
n., A record that is no longer used in the day-to-day course of business, but which may be kept and occasionally used for legal, historical, or ope... |
or ongoing agency business. [Archives]
[Defined as NON-CURRENT RECORDS] Records no longer needed for current business. [Archives] A record which is no longer needed for the ongoing activity of their creator. [Archives]
An assemblage of data intended for communication either through space or across time. [Archives]
... |
nal purposes.S yn.: non-current record. [Archives]
n., See
: received record [Archives]
inactive record
n.,
The subject line(s) and/or the title at the top of a record. [Archives]
indication of action
n., The mention of autonomous items that have been linked inextricably to the record before transmission (i.e., a... |
rchives]
n., Recorded data. [Archives]
n., An ac cus ation exhibi ted again st a per son for so me crim inal offense , without indictment.
[Archives]
n., A message or knowledge which has been voluntarily or involuntarily conveyed. [Archives]
n., An aggregate of data meant for communication. [Archives]
n., Reco... |
esented in readily comprehensible form to which meaning has been attributed within the context of its use. In a more
dynamic sense, the message conveyed by the use of a medium of communication or expression. [Computer and Information
Sciences]
n., All ideas, facts, and imaginative works of the mind which have been com... |
nication. [General Dictionaries]
n., Knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance. [General Dictionaries]
n., Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction. [General Dictionaries]
n., An assemblage of data in a comprehensible form capable of communication. [General Dicti... |
example, real-time control systems, message-switching systems, software engineering environments, or personal computing systems. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A computer hardware and software system designed to accept, store, manipulate, and analyze data and to report results, usually on a regular, ongoing b... |
Sciences]
integrity
n.,
A group of commands that initialize a device, such as a printer. [Computer and Information Sciences]
intact record
n., [diplomatics] An intrinsic element of documentary form that comprises the name, title and address of the addressee of the document and/or the action. [Archives]
instructi... |
ess. With dispositive, enabling, narrative, probative and supporting, one of six functional categories of records. [Archives]
n.,
n.,
A record that has had no relevant part removed or destroyed. [Archives]
n., Seen., Procedures for carrying out the creator’s business that have been linked to a scheme or plan for org... |
or system. [Computer and Information Sciences]
A group of commands that initialize a device, such as a printer. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., Th e quality of being compl ete and u naltered in a ll ess ential res pec ts. Wit h i dentity, a com ponent of au
thenticity. [General Dictionaries]
n., The integ... |
ation of programs and data for their intended purpose. [Arts]
n., A digital entity has integrity when it is whole and sound or when it is complete and uncorrupted in all its essent
ial respects. [Arts]
n., The accuracy and completeness of data, particularly after it has undergone transmission from one system to anoth... |
her hardware or software. Since such errors inevitably will occur from time to time, the prudent system
manager maintains a system of protective dumps, organized in such a way that there always exists a valid copy of a recent version
of every file on the system. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., Integrity refers... |
. [General Dictionaries]
manager maintains a system of protective dumps, organized in such a way that there always exists a valid copy of a recent version
n., See
: intellectual form [Archives]
n., The quality of being whole and unaltered through loss, tampering, or corruption. [General Dictionaries]
n., The control... |
n., The creation of tools such as catalogs, finding aids, or other guides that enable researchers to locate materi
als relevant to their interests. [Archives]
n., A system in which each user entry causes a response from or an action by the system, by virtue of
automated reasoning based on data from its apparatus. [Gen... |
ediate context, both documentary and administrative. [Archives]
v., An expression of the extent that in a given series of communication exchanges, any third (or later) transmission (or
message) is related to the degree to which previous exchanges referred to even earlier transmissions. [Computer and
Information Scienc... |
n., A document that is transmitted across space or through time only within the creating organization, rather than to an
external party. [Archives]
n., A record with variable content or form that is dependent on user input that is often based on earlier content. [Arc
hives]
n., Records corresponding to one of four po... |
ves).
* The use of new media: Artistic interaction via new medium invented by the artist (ex: programs with modify user input into a
visual or sound medium).
* Transforming mirrors: viewer image becomes an active force in a computer generated context (ex: video installations).
* Automata: not intended to be extensions... |
amework, invested by management or a corporate
board or subsidiary to perform specific functions. [Models (BDR)]
n., A system in which each user entry causes a response from or an action by the system, by virtue of automated reasoning bas
ed on data from its apparatus. [General Dictionaries]
n., An interactive system... |
sues. A painting is an instance of representation. A film is a sequence of representations. Interactive artworks are not instances of representations, they are virtual machines which themselves produces instances of representation based on real-time outputs. [Arts]
interactivity
v., An expression of the extent that i... |
er and Information Sciences]
intellectual form
n., A document that is transmitted across space or through time only within the creating organization, rather than to an external party. [Archives]
n., A document, such as a memorandum or report, intended for distribution within an organization, rather than for wider pu... |
m
The authority derived from external mandates and within the given strategic framework, invested by management or a corporate board or subsidiary to perform specific functions. [Models (BDR)]
intellectual property rights
n., A record, such as a memorandum or report, which is transmitted across space or through time... |
ords. [Models (BDR)]
Initialism for “intellectual property rights.” [Government]
n.,
The ability of one application/system to communicate or work with another. [General Dictionaries]
n., The ability of one application, system, or metadata schema to communicate, work, or interface with another;
the ability to pro... |
, The ability of software and hardware on multiple machines from multiple vendors to communicate. [Computer
and
Information Sciences]
n., The processes, technologies and protocols required to ensure data integrity when transferring it from one computer s
ystem to
another, together with the transmission of meaningful ... |
at conveys the action in which the record participates and its immediate context. [Archives]
n., The elements of a record that constitute its internal composition. The types of intrinsic elements include name of author, name of originator, chronological date, name of place of origin of record, name of addressee(s), na... |
e 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 context (e.g., the name of the author, addressee, the
date);
2) elements that communicate the action itself (e.g., the indication and descrip... |
). [Archives]
n., The inherent worth of a document upon factors such as age, content, usage, circumstances of creation, signature or attached seals. [Archives]
They fall into three groups:
n., A descriptive instrument that represents the records of a fonds in their hierarchical structure and arrangement, and illustra... |
or possession, as of all goods and materials on hand, or detailed lists of all items in a given category. For documentation of examination conducted to achieve a comprehensive view, use "surveys." [Arts]
2) elements that communicate the action itself (e.g., the indication and description of the action or matter);
n., ... |
Initialism for “intellectual property rights.” [Government]
n., The ability of software and hardware on multiple machines from multiple vendors to communicate. [Computer and
n.,
Initialism for “International Organization for Standardization.” [Government]
another, together with the transmission of meaningful and cor... |
ly subdivisible for descriptive purposes. [Archives]
n.,
n., An entity having the capacity or the potential to act legally and constituted either by a succession or collection of physical persons or a collection of properties. [Archives]
n., Juridical persons are collections or successions of natural persons having t... |
s lifecycle [Archives]
n., A social group that is organized on the basis of a system of rules and that includes three components: the social group, the organizational principle of the social group, and the system of binding rules recognized by the social group. [Models (MCP)]
n., A collectivity organized on the basi... |
entity having the capacity or the potential to act legally and constituted either by a succession or collection
of physical persons or a collection of properties. [Archives]
n.,
The legal and organizational system in which the creating body belongs. [Archives]
n.,
The legal and organizational system in which the c... |
l area network.” [Computer and Information Sciences]
language
n., [diplomatics] An extrinsic element of documentary form that comprises the expression and organization of ideas and discourse including composition, style, rhythm, and vocabulary. [Archives]
juridical person
n., Either the person or organization acqui... |
ives]
juridical-administrative context
n., Recorded information about additions made to a record after it has been created. [Archives]
n., Juridical persons are collections or successions of natural persons having the capacity to act legally in the context of the
enacted law or system of rules peculiar to any one pe... |
en created. [Archives]
n., A social group founded on an organizational principle that gives its institution(s) the capacity of making compulsory rules.
n., The mandate from law, professional best practices, professional literature, and other social sources requiring the creation and continued maintenance of archival d... |
lly limited (typically to a one kilometre radius) allowing easy interconnection of terminals, microprocessors and computers within adjacent buildings. [Computer and Information Sciences]
logical format
n., The organized arrangement of data on a digital medium that ensures file and data control structures are recogniz... |
and Information Sciences]
machine language
n.,
A set of names in which all names are unique. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., The set of names in a naming system. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A logical grouping of the names used within a program. Also called name scope.
[Computer and Informatio... |
al Dictionaries]
n., The expectation of the lifespan of a person, culture, and so on. [Sciences]
n., The persistence of an individual for longer than most members of its species, or of a genus or species ov
er a prolonged period
of geological time.
[Sciences]
n., The length of time for which a given information medi... |
conditions, etc.), and obsolescence of technology in the case of electronic media.
The syntactic organization of data elements in an SGML-compliant document. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recover... |
ribing a data compression algorithm which actually reduces the amount of information in the data, rather than just the number of bits used to represent that information. Opp.: lossless compression. [Computer and Information Sciences]
n., The expectation of the lifespan of a person, culture, and so on. [Sciences]
n., ... |
Sciences]
and other factors render it unusable. Longevity is affected by inherent vice, preservation procedures (cleaning, storage
n., A set of instructions for a specific central processing unit, designed to be usable by a computer without being translated. Syn.: machine code. [Computer and Information Sciences]
ma... |
mat that a machine cannot read. [Computer and Information Sciences]
manifest
n.,
A document composed or compiled by the creator. [Models (MCP)]
made document
n., A made document declared a record and set aside for action or reference, usually in a recordkeeping system. [Archives]
maintenance strategy
n., A coher... |
ne-readable format
n.,
Initialism for “metropolitan area network.” [Computer and Information Sciences]
n.,
v., To render a stored digital object in a form suitable for presentation either to a person (i.e., in human-readable form) or to a computer system (i.e., in machine language). [Archives]
n.,
n., A digital com... |
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