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Re: hard disks - short



5/17/02
 
    Mr. Popovici's question is by no means stupid. This remains one of the great sources of debate in the records universe. For my $.02 worth, Sharon is headed in the right direction on this question. T. Hine, The Total Package, is very good on the interweaving of container and information, especially in the product advertising world. See also B. Bergeron in Dark Ages II: When the Digital Data Die: "Data cannot be separated conceptually from the form and means of communication".
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On Behalf Of Butcher Sharon L Contr AEDC/ACS
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:43 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: 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
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library