Glossary definition(s) for: conversion of records
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v., The process of converting records in the usual and ordinary course of business (otherwise the activity is not conversion but creation) for purposes of security, disaster prevention, conservation, overcoming technology obsolescence, ensuring compatibility with a different hardware or software configuration or generation, or compacting the information, while leaving intact their intellectual form.
Dictionary definition(s) for: conversion of records
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v., The process of converting records in the usual and ordinary course of business (otherwise the activity is not conversion but creation) for purposes of security, disaster prevention, conservation, overcoming technology obsolescence, ensuring compatibility with a different hardware or software configuration or generation, or compacting the information, while leaving intact their intellectual form.
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v., To change the medium (includes copying to the same kind of medium) and/or physical form of a record in the usual and ordinary course of business (otherwise the activity is not convert records but create records), leaving intact the intellectual form, for purposes of security, disaster prevention, conservation, overcoming technology obsolescence, or compacting the information while preserving the record’s reliability and authenticity.
[ Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 113 ]
Duranti, Luciana, Terry Eastwood, and Heather MacNeil. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
