Glossary Home
Introduction
This glossary provides definitions of terms used throughout the Dalhousie Libraries Documentation Wiki.
This glossary is the Libraries’ “data dictionary” for standards-based digital preservation activities.
Glossary entries
- Access
- Access point
- Accession
- Accession record
- Accession number
- Accessioning
- Accrual
- Acquisition
- Administrative value
- Agent
- Appraisal unit
- Approximate date
- Archival appraisal
- Archival authority record
- Archival Information Package (AIP)
- Archival record
- Archival value
- Archives Permanent Collection
- Arrangement
- Aspect ratio
- Azimuth
- B roll (B-reel)
- Bag
- BagIt File Packaging Format
- BagIt Profile Specification
- Binary number
- Bit
- Bit depth
- Bit rate
- Bitonal image
- Byte
- Case file
- Checksum
- Chief source of information
- Codec
- Collection ID
- Colour temperature
- Compression
- Consumer
- Container
- Container profile
- DalCLASS
- Data object
- Data Object Type
- Deaccession
- Deaccessioning
- Description
- Descriptor
- Descriptor Model
- Descriptor Model ID
- Designated community
- Deskew
- Digital forensics case
- Dissemination Information Package (DIP)
- Dynamic range
- Electronic record
- Evidential value
- Fair market value
- File (digital object)
- File (level of arrangement)
- File format
- Finding aid
- Fiscal value
- Fonds
- Historical value
- Information object
- Information package
- Informational value
- Intrinsic value
- Item (level of arrangement)
- Knowledge base
- Legal value
- Level of arrangement
- Luma
- Luminance
- Management (OAIS)
- Master boot record (MBR)
- Model of objects for transfer (MOT)
- Monetary appraisal
- Office ID
- Office of Primary Responsibility
- Office of Secondary Responsibility
- Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
- Original order
- Pamphlet
- Parity bit
- Physical size
- Pixel dimensions
- Producer
- Producer-Archive Project
- Producer-Archive Project Identifier
- Producer Source ID
- Provenance
- Reappraisal
- Record
- Reference code
- Representation information
- Respect des fonds
- Sample rate
- Sampling
- Selection
- Series (level of arrangement)
- SIP Content Type
- SIP Model
- Skew
- Sous-fonds
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Submission agreement
- Submission Information Package (SIP)
- Technical appraisal
- Top Container
- Transfer Object
- Transfer Object Group
- Transfer Object Group Type
- Transfer Object Type
- Transfer Object Type Descriptor Model
- Transfer Type (Archivematica)
- University administrative record
- Zone.Identifier
- White balance