record

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Law

E-Discovery

Information created, received, and maintained as evidence and information by an organization or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business (ISO 15489(1). Collectively the term is used to describe both documents and electronically stored information.

Information, regardless of medium or format, that has value to an organization. Collectively the term is used to describe both documents and electronically stored information.

Technology

GIS

  1. In an attribute table, a single 'row' of thematic descriptors. In SQL terms, a record is analogous to a tuple.
  2. A logical unit of data in a file. For example, there is one record in the ARC file for each arc in a coverage.
  • City of High Point, NC — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27

Technology› Programming

Perl

A set of related data values in a "file" or "stream", often associated with a unique "key" field. In Unix, often commensurate with a "line", or a blank-line-terminated set of lines (a "paragraph"). Each line of the /etc/passwd file is a record, keyed on login name, containing information about that user.

Technology

Records Management

Recorded information, regardless of medium or characteristics, made or received by an organization in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business

A unit of recorded information created, received, and maintained as evidence or information by an organization or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business.

any recorded information produced or received in the initiation, conduct, or completion of an institutional or individual action or transaction and that comprises content, context, and structure sufficient to provide evidence of that activity.

  1. "Content" means information or matter conveyed by intelligible text.
  2. "Context" means the auspices, authority, or purpose of a record; the relationship between any given record and other records from the same source or agency; and the activity or circumstances in which the record was created.
  3. "Structure" means how the record and its content information is recorded, including use of symbols, format, layout, or medium.

Technology› Security

Biometrics

The template and other information about the end user (e.g. name, access permissions).

Technology

Telecommunications

A set of data treated as a unit. 2. To write data on a medium, such as magnetic tape, magnetic disk, or optical disk. 3. In PCS (personal communications services), a string of bytes within an extended frame (EF) handled as a single entity. [After T1.707-1998]

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