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 Reference Librarian AEDC Technical
Library 100 Kindel Drive, Ste C212
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-3212 931-454-4430 Fax:
931-454-5421 sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil
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 Paul V. Galvin
Library 35 W. 33rd St. Chicago, IL 60616 312/567-6840 FAX 312/567-5318
bruck@iit.edu
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
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