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documents, such as letters and reports, they can take any form. What differentiates records from documentary materials in general is not their form, but their connection to the activities in which they are made and received. If this link is broken, corrupted, or even obscured, the information in the record may be preserved, but the record itself is lost.
154:, from 1992 to 1993 Thibodeau was a member of the Standards Committee, in 1995 he was co-chair of the Committee on Education, from 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the Committee on Automated Records and Techniques, and in 2011 he was a member of the Program Committee. In December 2011 he was nominated to serve of the council of the society.
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recognized and interpreted by certain processes and software, such as a Word .doc file. Third, they are conceptual objects, such as a digital photograph as it appears on the screen. What he called an "information object" has all three properties. Thibodeau noted that its properties at each of those levels can be significantly different".
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Government, and the scale and diversity of the Government's programs. NARA views success in facing these challenges as entailing nothing less than building the archives of the future. In sober terms, unless we succeed in surmounting these challenges there will not be a National Archives of the United States for the digital era.
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Material to be archived ranges from simple text documents to complex multimedia web pages. In a 2002 essay
Thibodeau suggested three ways of viewing objects to be preserved. First, they are physical objects, such as flux reversals on a magnetic tape. Second, they are logical objects that can be
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Records are documents accumulated in the course of practical activities. As instruments and byproducts of those activities, records constitute a primary and privileged source of evidence about the activities and the actors involved in them. While records are often conceived in terms of textual
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A disc holding digital content is useful only if the content can be extracted from the disc and formatted so a user can view it. If there is no longer a device capable of reading that type of disk, or if the software used to display the data has been lost, the record has been
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Thibodeau stressed that digital preservation cannot be separated from the questions of access. He pointed out that archives have a unique responsibility to "preserve and deliver authentic records to subsequent generations of users." Thibodeau and others such as
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In 1988 Thibodeau returned to NARA and until 1995 was director of NARA's Center of
Electronic Records. He played a central role in developing the partnerships between several archival organizations and the
142:(ERA) System went live in 2008, and by 2011 held about 100 terabytes of records in electronic form. Thibodeau then became director of NARAs Center for Advanced Systems and Technology. He retired in 2011.
69:(NARA). He was responsible for development of the pioneering DoD 5015.02 standard for electronic records management and for creation of NARA's Electronic Records Archives System (ERA).
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see graph theory and semantic technology as fundamental to the theory of archives and records management. Thibodeau distinguished "records" from other types of document.
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Thibodeau (2008), "Building a Future for Our Times: the Electronic Records Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration, U.S.",
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