Dictionary definition(s) for: content

• n., The message contained in the body of a record.
  [ Archives - "The Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records: An Overview of the UBC-MAS Research Project." , Page: 54 ]
  Duranti, Luciana and Heather MacNeil. "The Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records: An Overview of the UBC-MAS Research Project." Archivaria 42 (Spring 1997): 46-67.
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• n., The essential matter or substance of a written work or discourse, as opposed to its form or style. In a more general sense, all the ideas, topics, facts, or statements contained in a book or other written work. Synonymous in this sense with subject matter. Also refers to the matter that is the subject of a course of study. Compare with contents. See also: content analysis and editorial content.
  
  [ Computer and Information Sciences - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (ODLIS) ]
  Reitz, Joan M. ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science . Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. http://lu.com/odlis/.
• n., The information that a document is meant to convey, as opposed to form.
  [ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
• n., The intellectual substance of a document – the text, data, symbols, numerals, images, sound and vision.
  [ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
• n., The textual, symbolic and/or visual message that is meant to be conveyed.
  [ Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 19 ]
  Duranti, Luciana, Terry Eastwood, and Heather MacNeil. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.