Includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine-readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data in them. Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications and of processed documents are not included. (Source: 36 CFR 1220.14) See also ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS, PROGRAM RECORDS.
documented observations and measurements to determine adherence to critical limits or other specified requirements for critical factors.
are all documents, regardless of form, produced or received by any agency, officer, or employee of an institution or organization in the conduct of its business. Documents include all forms of recorded information, such as: correspondence, computer data, files, financial statements, manuscripts, moving images, publications, photographs, sound recordings, drawings, or other material bearing upon the activities and functions of the institution or organization, its officers, and employees. A document becomes a record when it is placed in an organized filing system for use as evidence or information. It becomes archival when transferred to a repository for preservation and research use.
1. Recorded information, regardless of physical format or characteristics. 2. Documents or other material created by business or government agencies in the course of their daily activities.
Recorded information (books, papers, photographs, maps or other documentary materials) regardless of form or characteristics, made or received for legal or operational purposes in connection with the transaction of business.
All recorded information (regardless of medium or format) created or received and maintained by an organization in pursuit of its activities. [Back
Records of the Department of Energy are books, papers, photographs, machine readable materials, maps, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, which have documentary or evidential value. Such materials, created or received in connection with the transaction of official business, are preserved because of their informational value as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities. Records, also referred to as record material or Government records, can be destroyed only according to the provisions of authorized disposition schedules.
Term used in the title of manuscript or archival collections, such as Records of the University Advisory Council. "Records" is used for collections or record groups of corporate bodies or organizations. "Records" in the manuscripts context often includes multi media material, such as sound recordings, film, and photographs.
Activity model: Scope Documents created by a physical or juridical person in the course of practical activity. Alias: archival documents.
Information created, received and maintained as evidence and information by an organisation or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business. For the purpose of the Records Management Service the term includes volumes, correspondence, reports, invoices, plans and files and incorporates both physical and electronic media
Information created, received, and maintained as evidence and inforation by an organisation or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business... AS ISO 15489 Records Management...
Any assembly of books, document accounting procedure s and practice s, and other data, regardless of type and regardless of media (e.g. hardcopy, electronic, film, etc.) [D03557] RMW The collection of related items of information assembled during the course of a project. See also Records Management. [D03225] SU
Any information in written, visual, or electronic form that documents the activities undertaken by a producer, handler, or certifying agent to comply with the Act and regulations in this part.
1. For the purpose of the Archives Act 1983, a record is a document (including any written or printed material) or object (including a sound recording, coded storage device, magnetic tape or disc, microform, photograph, film, map, plan or model or a painting or other pictorial or graphic work) that is, or has been, kept by reason of any information or matter that it contains or can be obtained from it or by reason of its connection with any event, person, circumstances or thing. See also Commonwealth record. 2. Information in any format created, received, and maintained as evidence and information by an organisation or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business. Sources: Adapted from Archives Act 1983, Part I, Section 3; Standards Australia, AS ISO 15489, Part 1, Clause 3.15.
all books, papers, maps, machine-readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristic, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data in them. Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience or reference, and stocks of publications and of processed documents are not included. Records belong to the Government rather than to individuals. They are in no sense personal property. They can be legally destroyed only through the procedures of a disposition program.
Documents such as account books, sales and purchase invoices, contracts, bank statements, and cancelled cheques. You must keep records in an orderly manner at your business or residence in Canada for at least six years from the end of the last taxation year to which the records relate. You must make these books and other documents available to our officers for audit purposes.
Any documents and paperwork.
In business, particularly corporations, all the written business documents, especially about financial dealings. Thus, shareholders and partners are entitled to access to the "records" of the business.