The Record

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Lacking of a better word, I understand the record as a sum of published artifacts that share specific dimentions that can define them as a body or corpus. This primarly definition doesn't consider any specific scale and the record cna also signify a bigger index of small records, i.e. from a certain community of practice.

Mediated communication prior to the WWW was mainly characterized by the idea of fixation. The medium worked as a support for fixing discourses and arguments in different classes of artifacts. People then organized this artifacts in a way that would allowed them to refer, recall and build on top of this heritage.

Later, with more pervasive digital formats, the corpus aquired a different connotation because wasn't necesarily fixed any more...

These are some examples of records:

  • Academinc Journal indexes
  • news blogs
  • Google

They have in common 


It's not about the medium, it's about the record. it's about understanding how a record get's organized, how it happens to be.

A record is a collections of media (any kind or format) that is organized and preserved in a way that doesen't depend from a single individual but from a community. Integrity of the record: it is constrained by the elements it has

  • What is the record?
    • The record of a community
      • the fundamental stones, the text collection
      • the memory palace
        • current records
      • record as a folksonomy
        • del.icio.us
        • flickr
        • filtering the record: the record is too much, there's no way I can grasp it. I'm going to be smashed by it, so i need summaries, i need visual representations that hold the truth of the record. A representation I can trust as a fact (because the record is a fact)
      • the record as a knowledge model (a huge shift from objects to relationships)
        • wikipedia?
        • (semantic web)
          • rigidity
          • logical paradoxes
    • modifying the record (can I participate in the record?)
      • The unfair conversation: marginalia
      • quality versus speed
      • languaging and folksonomies
      • The idea of the record as a space for design (is metadesign a form of interaction design)
      • interaction and the political dimension of the record
      • back to a centralized organization
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Definitions

  1. the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
  2. an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"
  3. make a record of; set down in permanent form
  4. phonograph record: sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
  5. the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
  6. register electronically; "They recorded her singing"
  7. read: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  8. criminal record: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"
  9. a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
  10. be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"
  11. commemorate: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
  12. a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase" [1]
  13. A gramophone record or phonograph record (often simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. Analogue audio recording onto a disc was the main technology used for the storing of recorded sound for most of the 20th century.[2]
  14. In computer science, a database record is a description of a single item as stored in a database. In a relational database each row of each table is a database record.[3]
  15. In computer science, composition is a way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones. Composited objects are called fields, items, members, and attributes, and the resulting composition a structure or record. The terms usually varies across languages. Members are often named so that each member is distinguished from the others.[4]
  16. A unit of information in a computer database identifying a specific item. It includes data such as author, title, date, publisher, subject headings. See Bibliographic Record.[5]
  17. A collection of related data, arranged in fields and treated as a unit. The data for each article in a database make up a record. The complete information for each item in the UMD Library Catalog is also a record.[6]
  18. In library databases a record is made up of fields that describe the parts of a publication, eg. journal article, book, conference paper or web site.[7]
  19. All the documents and evidence plus transcripts of oral proceedings in a case.[8]
  20. A composite type consisting of a collection of named components, not necessarily all of the same type. [9]
  21. an individual component of a database containing information such as citation(s), statistics, text, etc. [10]
  22. Descriptive data relating to a specific item ( book, article, video, etc. ). Each record includes fields that describe the publication.[11]
  23. a piece of data treated as a unit. [12]
  24. Throughout the PMS, the requirements to "record" information are interpreted to mean "set down in a manner that can be retrieved and viewed." The result can take many forms including, but not limited to, hand-written notes, hard-copy, or electronic documents, and data recorded in computer-aided software engineering (CASE) and project management tools.[13]
  25. A group of data values consisting of one value for each of a prescribed set of relational fields; an occurrence of a record type. [14]
  26. A collection of data items or fields treated as one unit.[15]
  27. A record is what you retrieve when you search a database. It can be made up of various pieces of information. These pieces of information can be separated into fields. In a periodical index, which is a database of article citations, each citation is also called a record. In the TPL Catalog, each reference retrieved for a particular title is also a record. [16]
  28. 1. In an attribute table, a single 'row' of thematic descriptors. In SQL terms, a record is analogous to a tuple. 2. A logical unit of data in a file. For example, there is one record in the ARC file for each arc in a coverage. [17]
  29. A sequence of bits treated as a single logical entity.[18]
  30. Used synonymously with record type or record occurrence depending on the context in which the term is used. [19]
  31. Recorded information, regardless of medium or characteristics, created, received, and maintained by an organization or person.[20]
  32. Either the incontinent patient or caregiver uses this diary to chart frequency, timing, amount of voiding or other problems associated with urinary incontinence.[21]
  33. The official collection of all of the material filed with a court in a legal proceeding.[22]
  34. In a non-relational database system, a record is an entry in a file, consisting of individual elements of information, which together provide full details about an aspect of the information needed by the system. Individual elements are held in fields and all records are held in files. An example of a record might be an employee. Every detail of the employee, for example, date of birth, department code, or full names will be found in a number of fields. ... [23]
  35. a full unit of information in a database. Records are comprised of fields.[24]
  36. 1) Recorded data or information of any kind and in any form, created or received and accumulated by an organisation or person in the transaction of business or the conduct of affairs and subsequently kept as evidence of such activity through incorporation into the recordkeeping system of the organisation or person. Records are the information by-products of organisational and social activity. [25]
  37. To commit to writing, printing, or such; make an official note of; written account of act, court proceeding, transaction, or instrument, drawn up, under authority of law, by a proper officer and designed to remain as a permanent part of the matter to which it relates. [26]
  38. A sequential file may be structured as a number of contiguous parts called records. Record structures are supported by FTP but a file need not have record structure.[27]
  39. a specific piece of recorded information generated, collected, or received in the initiation, conduct, or completion of an activity, and that comprises sufficient content, context, and structure to provide proof or evidence of that activity. ...[28]
  40. The record is generally a record of amy time. In computing, the record usually corresponds to a line of a data file. A record is usually subdivided into fields, and can be considered analogue to a card in a card file: the fields of each card (ie record) are the different items written on the card. [29]
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