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Re: Archiving information within databases



The data in a ledger MIGHT be fixed, but then so might the data in a
database, at some point. Both are likely go through an active lifestage, in
which the data is "dynamic," and both may eventually become a "fixed,"
inactive record. And an active paper ledger might have additions made on a
daily basis, and corrections made to earlier entries, just like a database.

Indeed ARCHIVAL records tend to be fixed, because they are by definition
non-current, inactive. But databases can become non-current and archival in
nature, as well.

Certainly an electronic database is more "fluid" than many traditional
records, but my feeling is that it's a record, just the same.


Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch

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