Dictionary definition(s) for: electronic record

• n., An analogue or digital record that is carried by an electrical conductor and requires the use of electronic equipment to be intelligible by a person.
• n., [Defined as MACHINE READABLE RECORDS/ARCHIVES] Records/archives usually in code, recorded on a medium such as a magnetic disc, magnetic tape, punched card, whose contents are accessible only by machine and organized in accordance with the principle of provenance.
  [ Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]
  Dictionary of Archival Terminology. 2nd rev. ed. Edited by Peter Walne. New York: K.G. Saur, 1988.
• n., A record that has been made or received, and fixed for storage and manipulation in a computer system and that requires the use of the system to be intelligible by a person.
  [ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
  See Also:

  • digital record
• n., A record which is in electronic form.
  [ Archives - Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records (MoReq) - Glossary , Page: 104 ]
  European Commission. Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records: MoReq Specification . Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001. http://www.cornwell.co.uk/moreqdocs/moreq.pdf.
• n., Bibliographic or archival records stored on a medium, such as magnetic tape/disk or optical disk, that requires computer equipment for retrieval and processing. Compare with machine-readable records.
  [ 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., Information that has been captured and fixed for storage and manipulation in an automated system and that requires the used of the system to render it intelligible by a person.
  [ 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., Records on electronic storage media.
  [ 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