Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- received document
- received record
- recipient
- recipient’s name
- reconstitute
- record
- record attribute
- record characteristic
- record creation
- record element
- record identity
- record integrity
- record profile
- record version
- record-making
- record-making access privileges
- record-making metadata schemes
- record-making system
- recordkeeping
- recordkeeping access privileges
- recordkeeping metadata schemes
- recordkeeping office
- recordkeeping system
- records aggregation
- records continuum
- records creator
- records forms
- records keeper
- records lifecycle
- records management
- records management function
- records manager
- records officer
- records preservation
- records preservation strategy
- records preservation system
- records retention schedule
- records series
- records system
- refreshing
- refreshing of records
- registered record
- registration number
- registration scheme
- registry system
- reliability
- reliable record
- render
- reproduce
- reproduced digital record
- reproducible digital record
- reproduction
- repurposing
- requirement
- resource description framework
- retention schedule
- retrieval system
- retrospective record
- rule
Term | record
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. A documentary account of past events, usu. designed to memorialize those events. 2. Information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that, having been stored in an electronic or other medium, is retrievable in perceivable form. 3. MINUTES (2). 4. The official report of the proceedings in a case, including the filed papers, a verbatim transcript of the trial or hearing. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
- n., 1. Includes any information that is recorded or stored by means of any device. 2. Includes the whole or any part of any book, document, paper, card, tape or other thing on or in which information is written, recorded, stored or reproduced, and, except for the purposes of subjections (3) and (4), any copy or transcript admitted in evidence under this section pursuant to subjection (3) or (4). Canada Evidence Act. R.S.C. 1985, c. C-5, s. 30(12). 3. A collection of every pleading and proceeding in an action intended for use at the trial. 4. Includes any correspondence, memorandum, book, plan, map, drawing, diagram, pictorial or graphic work, photograph, film,, microform, sound recording, videotape, machine readable record, and any other documentary material regardless of physical form or characteristics, and any copy thereof. 5. When used in reference to a person, means all recorded information, regardless of physical form or characteristics, that: (i) relates to the person; (ii) is recorded in connection with the provision of an approved service, or a service purchased by an approved agency, to the person or a member of the person’s family; and (iii) is under the control of a service provider… [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., A document made or received in the course of a practical activity as an instrument or a by-product of such activity, and set aside for action or reference. Syn.: archival document. See also: accession record; accessioned records; acquired records; active record; aggregated records; analogue record; archives [records]; arranged records; audiovisual record; aural record; authentic copy; authentic record; authenticated record; authoritative record; classified record; complete record; conformed copy; copy in form of original; created record; declared record; described records; digital record; dispositive record; draft; dynamic record; effective record; electroacoustic record; electronic record; enabling record; executed record; experiential record, genuine record; graphic record; imitative copy; inactive record; incoming record; instructive record; intact record; interactive record; internal record; made record; manifested digital record; narrative record; obsolete record official record; operational record; original record; outgoing record; perfect record; pseudo-original; potential record; presented digital record; preserved record; probative record; prospective record; received record; registered record; reliable record; reproduced digital record; reproducible digital record; retrospective record; sent record; semiactive record; simple copy; stored digital record; supporting record; virtual record; written record.
- n., A documentation of things past in writing; often the exact history of a legal proceeding; information stored in electronic form on some medium such as computer drive, CD, or DVD; the official transcript of a trial or proceeding that contains its word-by-word documentation. Dictionary. c2006]
- v., The act of filing a document with a court or official office, as in “to record a deed.” [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
