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Glossary definition(s) for: document
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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 - Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science , Page: 41 ]
Duranti, Luciana. Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Dictionary definition(s) for: document
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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 - Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science , Page: 41 ]
Duranti, Luciana. Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
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n., A combination of a medium and the information recorded on or in it, which may be used as evidence or for consultation.
[ Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]
Dictionary of Archival Terminology. 2nd rev. ed. Edited by Peter Walne. New York: K.G. Saur, 1988.
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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 Sciences - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS) ]
Reitz, Joan M. ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science . Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. http://lu.com/odlis/.
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n., A piece of text considered to be a single item and usually stored as a file. The document might be a letter, a report, a chapter, etc. It will usually have a unique name, and may have other attributes attached to it, such as a brief description of what it contains and who composed it.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - A Dictionary of Computing ]
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n., A single archival, record or manuscript item. Usually physically indivisible.
[ Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]
Dictionary of Archival Terminology. 2nd rev. ed. Edited by Peter Walne. New York: K.G. Saur, 1988.
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n., A single component or entity in a set of archival materials, usually a physically indivisible object.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book. 9th ed. Edited by Raymond John Prytherch. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 2000.
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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 - A Guide to Standards, Recommended Practices and Reference Literature Related to the Preservation of Documents of All Kinds - Glossary , Page: 50 ]
Boston, George, and Milton Keynes, eds. Safeguarding the Documentary Heritage: A Guide to Standards, Recommended Practices and Reference Literature Related to the Preservation of Documents of All Kinds. Paris: UNESCO, 1998. Also available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001126/112676eo.pdf.
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n., A unit of data or information, especially written or textual, that has been compiled and formatted for a specific purpose that includes content and structure, and may include context.
[ General Dictionaries - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Any specific type of file produced or edited by a specific application; usually capable of being printed. E.g. "Word document", "Photoshop document", etc.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
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n., Information that has been fixed in written form.
[ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Recorded information or object which can be treated as a unit.
[ Archives - 15489-1 , Page: 3 ]
International Organization for Standardization. Information and Documentation: Records Management . 15489-1. Part 1. Geneva: ISO, 2001.
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n., Recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics.
[ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Refers especially to recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics, whether created specifically as records of information or used as such at some time subsequent to their creation. In its broadest sense, however, can include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, not only written and printed materials in paper or microform versions but also nonprint media and, in some circumstances, three-dimensional objects or realia.
[ Arts - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ]
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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, soundtracks, and films.
[ Government - A Dictionary of Law ]
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