The one concern I've always had with the intellectual hair-splitting of such
terms as record, document, data, etc. is that if these concepts and somewhat
esoteric terms are pushed too much you end up confusing, and thus
alienating, the end users of your program.  Perhaps my attitude comes from
working in local government too long.  How do others feel about this?

David F. Lowry
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Albany County Hall of Records
250 South Pearl Street
Albany, NY 12202
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www.albanycounty.com/achor
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-----Original Message-----
From: John R Gahrmann [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:11 PM
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Subject: Re: Record or Document


Information Asset definitions I use:

1.Document - A Document is information that has been captured on a
retainable
media.
2.Record - A Record is information (regardless of media) which must be
retained
by an organization for a period of
     time until the information contained in it is of little or no value. It
may
include multiple documents brought together to
     document a process, activity or decision.
3.Hard Copy - Any document recorded in a humanly read-able media.
4.Data - The basic unstructured building block of Information Assets.
5. Information - Structured Data

John R. Gahrmann
Duke Energy/ ONS Doc Mgmt