The Overlapping Etymology of Documents, Records, Archives, and Data in Archival Science and their Re-conveyance in the Digital Domain Space

Lekoko KenosiFollow

ORCID Identifiers

0000-0003-3398-4088

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Conference Name

SASA Annual Conference 2024

Publication Date

Summer 7-4-2024

Abstract

The digital transformations currently happening on the net, in cloud computing, and now through generative AI tools- have far-reaching consequences for many disciplines. These transformations have been crosscutting and reconvening boundaries that hitherto defined the information science fields- including their glossaries. This presentation will examine the often overlapping- and sometimes confusing- key archival science terms of documents, records, and data and their etymological metamorphosis within a short period of time due to extraordinary developments in the digital domain space. The presenter concludes with remarks on the ease of archival access, or the lack of it, in a complicated digital world.

Keywords

Data, Information, Document, Record, Archives Datafication, Computational Archival Science, Records Character, Records Structure, Records Content, Records Context, Big Data, Metadata

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