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Re: hard disks - short



I wonder what the legal beagles say about this. I recently gave a paper where I gave examples of documents...they include boxes our food comes in (e.g., Lean Cuisine, Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage, Sweet-N-Low packets, dog tags, pencils with printing, clay tablets, telephone bills, match covers, political nail files with a candidate's name and slogan, Fido's heart worm medication box, a cake mix box with the symbol of the measuring cup/egg/oil, etc.  They all carry symbols conveying  information, be it cunieform, English, transportation symbols, a logo, whatever. Grecian urns have symbols conveying information.  A receipt.....from Sprawl Mart is another document.
 

Sharon Lee Butcher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Bruck [mailto:bruck@IIT.EDU]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:32 PM
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Subject: Re: hard disks - short

I don't think the disk could be considered a document.  It is only the carrier or the medium -- like the cigar box that contains the love letters or the stamp collection someone is giving you.  The "document(s)" is the data, images, or text stored on the disks. 
 

Catherine Bruck
University Archivist
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Chicago, IL  60616
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-----Original Message-----
From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf Of Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:53 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: hard disks - short
Importance: High

Allow me a stupid question, probably:

 

Can the computer hard disks be considered "documents", from archival point of view?
 
Thanks,
Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI
archivist
Brasov County Division of National Archives
ROMANIA