A document managed by the host application (any form or format), an email message or attachment, a document created within a desktop application such as MS Word, regardless of format. There are two forms of document: Electronic Body (text) of the document is stored in electronic format and can be read. If declared as a record, an electronic document becomes a managed record (i.e. a document may or may not be a (declared) record). Non-Electronic (Ndoc). A physical document of any form (maps, paper, VHS video tapes, etc.). Body is not recorded in electronic form, but descriptive metadata is stored and tracked within RM (profile). If declared as a record, an Ndoc becomes a managed record (i.e. an Ndoc may or may not be a (declared) record).

Written or printed paper that bears information that can be used to furnish decisive evidence. Could also be a recording, computer readable information, or a photograph.

Information you create with a computer program. It could be a memo, a picture, a budget. Also called a file.

Any item, printed or otherwise, that is amenable to cataloging and indexing. The term applies not only to written and printed materials in paper or microform versions, but also to non-print media (e.g. machine-readable records, transparencies, audiotapes, videotapes) and, by extension, to three-dimensional objects or realia (e.g. museum objects and specimens). Compare content object. (from the Z39.19 NISO standard)

a physical entity on which information is recorded in the form of words, images, sounds, etc. Documents include books, recordings, motion pictures, audiotapes, data files, etc. In a narrower sense, the word often refers to a government document.

A physical or digital entity which records all or part of a work or several works. Documents appear in a variety of formats including books, pamphlets, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, graphics, audiorecordings, videorecordings, motion pictures, microfiche, microfilm and digital files.

A record which conveys information; originally a written or inscribed record, but now considered to include any form of information.

A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.

The electronic record of a transaction, entered in SAP. For example, a journal document is a record of a journal voucher transaction.

(1) Recorded information regardless of physical form or characteristics. Often used interchangeably with record.(2) An individual record or an item of nonrecord materials or of personal papers. See also NONRECORD MATERIALS, PERSONAL PAPERS, RECORDS.

A rendering of data in physical, electronic, or other media. name, number, type, date Content, description, format, media, sensitivity, record indicator These renderings can take various forms such as hard copy, analog or digital recordings, electronic files

an item of information, such as an article, book, story, report, thesis, letter, memo, patent, legal decision, or other unit that might be the target of retrieval

Generally refers to writings, pictures, maps, etc. Denoted official papers such as deeds, agreements, title papers, receipts and other written instruments used to prove a fact.

compound object that does not have chapters, page limitations or other structure. Examples include diaries, letters, photo albums, reports, and sheet music.

A record of information in printed or written or any other format. Library materials are referred to as documents.

A written or printed paper that is the original, official, or legal form of something such as a deed, title, or birth certificate.

Human thought or expression stored in a permanent or semi-permanent media. Examples include, business letters on paper, photographs on film or stored on a disk drive, and books.

any stored data record in any form.

A written paper, recording, photograph, computer file, or other item that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish evidence or information. Letters to an individual, business reports, architectural drawings, photographs, videos, and computer files are all examples of documents.

1. Recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics. Frequently used interchangeably with the word record. 2. A single record item (letter, memorandum, form, or report) consisting of one or more pages (ARMA International).

Noun: a document is output produced by an information system. It may be an electronic document as in an email or a web page or it may be a printed document as in a letter or report. Verb: to document is to record instructions about how to operate an information system or use a software application. See also, system documentation, user documentation.

An official printed paper.

A text file that can be in electronic format or printed on paper which supports the notice . Documents are not available publicly on MERX Public Tenders, but can be purchased by suppliers. Sometimes this term is confused with attachments and/or physical components

to record information about an object or event

A document is a representation of a `portion' of information (in some language, in some medium) that can be stored and retrieved separately. Comment: Articles and books are examples of documents, as are modules. Thus a document may consist of 'subdocuments'. Traditionally documents are written on paper. However, in our broad definition a document may for example consist of an electronically stored non-verbal representation of information.

A record containing information readable by a person or a machine.

Recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics. Documents may be textual, photographic, cartographic, audiovisual or electronic.

A block of information in a hypermedia information pool that is thematically unified. Such documents resemble contemporary paper documents except that clips of animation, pictures, and sound tracks may also be documents. Also, in fully integrated hypermedia systems, the typical document will likely be smaller in size - closer to the length of an article in a newspaper than to the length of a book.

A physical entity of any printed work, such as a book, manuscript, etc. A government publication or public document.

is used generically to include all forms of books, manuscripts, records and other classes of material containing information or other material of intellectual content, regardless of the actual medium or format employed

A written single Page or numbered written Pages that will be sent one by one in the same Envelope.

The item, such as a sheet of paper or a book, that is placed on the document table to read.

Any paper-based item, such as a letter, census return or photograph.

Entity Model: definition of Record. Information consigned to a medium.

Something written or printed that provides factual information or proof; any object used as evidence; to prove or support by means of documents.

Written information. For example, the British North America Act document set down the information on how the governments in Canada would work.

I. Similar to record and often used interchangeably. Tends to be evidence of a single transaction, often with strong legal connotations; 2. A single item in a record group

An article, book, or other work, typically containing text or other media, that includes information content.

Recorded information regardless of form or medium.

Any recorded information, regardless of its physical form or characteristics, including, without limitation, written or printed matter, tapes, charts, maps, paintings, drawing, engravings, sketches, working notes and papers; reproductions of such things by any means or process; and sound, voice, magnetic, or electronic recordings in any form.

A data medium and the data recorded on it, that generally has permanence and that can be read by man or machine. Often used to describe human readable items only, for example, technical documents, design documents version description documents. To create a document.

an instrument containing recorded information.

The item, such as a sheet of paper, that is placed on the document table for the scanner to read.

A generic term for all media capable of conveying, coding and preserving knowledge. Documents may be books, journals, electronic resources, reports, sound recordings, motion pictures, etc.

Any "printed" image stored in a computer or realised on a piece of paper.

Any item, printed or otherwise, that is amenable to cataloging and indexing. The term applies not only to written and printed materials in paper or microform versions (e.g., books, journals, maps, diagrams), but also to non-print media (e.g., machine-readable records, transparencies, audiotapes, videotapes) and, by extension, to three-dimensional objects or realia (e.g., museum objects and specimens). A document is a content object.

1) Noun: a paper which establishes certain facts or attempts to bring about a certain result. 2) Verb: to set out events, facts or beliefs in written form.

Any item (not necessarily on paper) that can be indexed or catalogued.

Recorded information or object, which can be treated as a unit.

This can be used in three ways. Materials published by governments or governmental agencies, often referred to as "Government Documents."  These may be produced by nations (the United States, Canada), by individual states within the U.S., or by international organizations such as the United Nations. In a broader sense, any historical material, such as a letter, a deed, a marriage certificate, or other first-hand or eye-witness testimony, is a "document." As a verb, "to document" means to record all the items used in doing your research, to compile a bibliography.

a man or machine (e.g. computer) readable record form containing information.

Any Writing or data compilation containing information in any form, including an agreement, record, correspondence, tape, e-mail, video, audio, disk, computer file, electronic attachment, notice, memorandum or other Writings or data compilations.

Written and/or graphical information describing, defining, specifying, reporting, or certifying activities, requirements, procedures, reviews, or results. See Product.

A book, article, pamphlet, etc. A government document is a book, pamphlet, or other item that has been published by the State or United States Government.

to prove or show something.

Document is a generic term for the various forms, reports, schedules, exhibits, items of correspondence, etc., that comprise filings and other submissions. An electronic document originating with a filer or agent can only be sent as part of a submission. A document is a discrete unit of text. One or more documents comprise an electronic submission. Examples of documents include a 1933 Act registration statement, a 1934 Act Form 10-Q, or a cover letter. Each exhibit is a separate document within a submission. The SEC EDGAR system also treats each graphic file included in a submission as a separate document.

A file that is readable from a web browser using either the browser itself or a third-party plug-in or product. By default, SmarterStats considers the following extensions to be "documents": .chm, .doc, .rtf, .pdf, .txt, .xml, .xls, and .ps

A record of an event or knowledge, taken so that the information will not be lost. Documents are usually written, but they can also be made up of images or sound. Documents can also be put into electronic or digital form and stored in a computer.

See record.

Something written or inscribed that furnishes evidence or information on any subject (e.g., title deed, coin, etc.). In the Essential Skills methodology, the word document is not synonymous with "materials" as it does not include text reading in the form of sentences or paragraphs. See Document Use.

An original or official paper or publication.

Any item, printed or otherwise, that is amenable to cataloguing and indexing. This definition refers not only to written and printed material in paper or microfilm versions (e.g. books, diagrams, maps), but to non-print media (e.g. machine-readable records, films, sound recordings), and three-dimensional objects or realizations (models) used as specimens.

one or more pages of written or printed matter, or their electronic equivalent, providing a record of events, identification of ownership, an agreement, etc.

the paper source document, or later, the stored image of the source document.

1. The combination of a medium and the information recorded on or in it which may be used as evidence or for consultation 2. A single record or item. Examples include: a sheet of paper with writing; an E-Mail message; a film with images; a magnetic tape with a sound recording.

A printed, written piece of information.

Documents are structured units of information recorded in any format and on any medium and managed as discrete units or objects.

Information contained in a particular medium, generated in the normal course of business operations. All records are documents but not all documents are records. The distinction between a record and a document is not altogether clear. We suggest that documents may contain information created in a business context, but do not necessarily represent evidence of business activities. Documents can serve as envelopes which point to other types of documents.

The entity which contains recorded information-- a book, a graphic, an audiorecording, etc. may be called a document, regardless of medium (e.g., digital, paper, magnetic tape)

Structured units of recorded information, published or unpublished, in hard copy or electronic form, and managed as discrete units in information systems

Recorded materials including letters, photos, reproducible computer files, legal forms, etc. A document is any tangible information including letters, contracts, electronic or paper files, x-rays, receipts or other material evidence.

Any written paper having potential evidentiary value.

One or several single pages of images that make a logical single communication of information. Examples include a letter, a report, a memo or an airline ticket.

A document contains information. It often refers to an actual product of writing or recording and is usually intended to communicate or store collections of data. Documents are often the focus and concern of administration.

Document is the fifth studio album by R.E.M. and their sixth overall. It was released in 1987 a few months after their rarities collection Dead Letter Office appeared and is the last album of new material by the band released on the I.R.S. Records label.

A file created with an application and stored; can be retrieved, modified, printed, E-mailed, etc.

A case, statute, or other authority that you can retrieve using this service.

A file containing data that you create using an application.

Any self-contained piece of work created using a program. A letter you create with your word processor is a document; so, too, is a picture you create with a graphics editor or a Web page you design with a Web page editor

A common unit of data (typically a file) used in user tasks and exchanged between users.

What a program creates. Where your information is actually stored. This is what you make when you create something on the computer - letter, picture, budget, etc.

Used on the Web to mean any data which makes sense to a suitable human: not just text, but sounds and movies.

(noun) Any self-contained piece of work created with an application program and, if saved on disk, given a unique filename by which it can be retrieved. (verb) To explain or annotate something, such as comments within a program or a description of a problem in a bug report.

A collection of text, edited and formatted with word processing commands, located in a file.

In this context, a type of file containing textual information intended for human retrieval. Examples of document files are Microsoft WORD Documents, XHTML Documents, and text documents.

A set of text and/or graphical data organized and formatted for direct human interpretation. A document can be delivered as printed pages or digitally in the form of composed page images.

(1) A handwritten, typewritten, or printed sheet or sheets of paper containing data. (2) Any representation or collection of information or text. (3) To prepare documentation. In terms of font usage, a document is a file created with an application to some individual purpose in which fonts may be used. The metrics of a font may also reside in an AFM document which is merely a textual representation of that font's character metrics.

A file created by a word processor or desktop publisher, containing words or pictures.

A file on the network, most often a web page or word processing document, but also including text files, spreadsheets, and so on. This is a generic term for a resource indexed by the Compass Server.

any kind of data file that can be uploaded to a folder or workspace. In addition to plain text documents, Business Collaborator can be used to store and organise proprietary document types, such as MSWord or WordPerfect, PostScript files, MSExcel spreadsheets, GIF images, zipped files and many more.

Electronic or hardcopy file containing information.

A file created on a computer by software. Known also as a data file.

Any file that can be transferred to or from a WWW server and a WWW client. Return to the top

The file you are working on. For a fax cover sheet, your document is a word processor file.

An object that can be stored, retrieved, and exchanged among Content Manager systems and users as a separate unit. Also called an object, it can be any multimedia digital object. A single document can contain many different types of base parts, including text, images, and objects such as spreadsheet files.

The general term for the work that we create with our computers and store on a disk.

A generic term which is usually avoided in favour of "letter" or "batch". It should be understood, though, that a file saved in Word - even a batch file - is automatically regarded by the software as being a Word document and is therefore given the extension of .doc.

A "textual object." In HTML, documents (or "pages") were single files containing HTML. In XML, documents may contain content from several files or chunks and should included markup structures that make it valid or well-formed.

A file you create when you save your work in a program. Examples of documents include word-processing files, spreadsheets, and bitmaps.

sometimes called a file, is what you create with an application/program. For example, a word processor application is used to create a word processing document/file.

In computing, a word-processor FILE.

Document is a term used to describe work that is created on the computer. For example, writing a report in Microsoft Word creates a document when it is saved as a file with a name.

A document is the contents of a window, typically associated with a file. When first opened, the document is in sync with the file, but if the document is edited, it needs to be saved again for the file to be in sync with it.

An item created with an application program. Documents are usually represented by an icon derived from the application that created it.

When used in reference to the World Wide Web, a document is any file containing text, media or hyperlinks that can be transferred from an HTTP server to a client program.

A file created by an application.

Documents reside in the collections set up by your Athena Administrator. In Athena's context, a document can be any type of knowledge integrated into the Athena system and made available to you in a collection. A document could be a Word document, an Excel spreadsheet, a SQL database, an intranet site, email, or Web pages. See the topic: Understanding the Search Results Page.

Any written instrument meeting all statutory requirements which may be recorded or filed with the register of deeds; the image or original document is stored and accessible through various indexes by the general public unless the document is confidential.

see File.

A File that is stored in TUTOS file repository. Documents are related to Projects or Installations. Pictures in the addressbook are also stored as documents.

A file containing information like text, sound, or graphics. Documents are created and edited from within programs.

1. any text, data, or graphics file created on the computer 2. any WWW file containing text, graphics or hyperlinks that can be viewed with a web browser

Any document that is filed pertaining to an action. It can be an Approved Form, Affidavit or any written material.

RICH TEXT FORMAT / rtf Documents are any file produced by an application. Rich text format is a standard which was formalised for specifying document formats. rtf files use special commands which indicate formatting information such as margins, fonts and layout. HTML is a good example of a formatting language.

Whatever you create with application programs - a file you can open, modify, view or save. Compare File.

A computer file that may contain text, graphics, page layout or other elements. Word files, for example, are referred to as documents.

A file provided on a website that contains text, such as pages, text files, word processing files, and spreadsheet files.

Adobe Photoshop's term for an image file.

Structured file sent to a trading partner. In ASC X12 usage a document is synonomous with a transaction set.

Structured file that is sent to a trading partner. With ASC X12 usage, a document is a transaction set.

unit of information sent from servers to clients; a document may contain plain or formatted text, inlined graphics, sound, other multimedia data, or hyperlinks to other documents; often also referred to as a file

This is a file created by a word processor which contains formatting information, text styles, fonts and the like. This is opposed to a regular text file which just contains textual content and can be viewed by typing the TYPE command.

A single unit of information. What constitutes a unit is up to you--it can be one chapter in a book, one page in an article, or an entire book. A document does not have to contain text. It can also be a graphic, an image, or a spreadsheet, for example. Documents are simple or virtual. A simple document can only include information in one file format. A virtual document can contain information in multiple formats. The same document can go into more than one folder through linking.

a file such as a Word document or PDF file which can be uploaded to the portal system and made available to visitors to the site.

A data file, created with an application. Includes information that you type, edit, view, or save. A document may be a business report, a picture, or a letter, and can be stored as a file on a disk. Source: Microsoft's New Computer Users Glossary

The information created by one or more applications and stored on a PC. Used interchangeably in IT contexts with "record" or "file."

A file created using an application. For example, you might create a text document using a word processing application (such as Word) or a picture document using a graphic application (such as Paint Shop Pro).

OR file "file" is preferred

A text-based file produced using a word processing program.

The name for any file that can be transferred to or from a Web server and a user.

A document is a set of pages that are related usually because the sense of the text on one page flows into the next as in a book. For OCR Shop XTR, it is best to arrange for documents to be sets of pages that have the same font or set of fonts continuing from one page to the next. This best takes advantage of the internal font learning system that is built into the OCR Shop XTR recognition system.

A file created from within an application program. Word-processing files, spreadsheets, and web pages are some of the most common documents you might create and use.

(Domain: Customer Information) A document library is a place to store files without attaching them to accounts, contacts, opportunities, or other records. Each document in the document library resides in a folder. The folder's attributes determine the accessibility of the folder and the documents within it.

Any web page or file can be known as a document.

Whatever you create with an application program.

is a broadly used term that refers to word-processing files, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, database tables, faxes, business forms, images, or any other collection of organized data. Documents are also referred to as 'records.'

A holding place for information. A file.

A data file. Whatever you create with an application, including information you type, edit, view, or save. A document may be a business report, a picture, or a letter and is stored as a file on a disk.

This is the file you create in an application - an example is a letter that you've written in a Word Processor. Every document has its own icon.

A file created by a program.

May be a textural report, spreadsheet, picture, or spatial database stored as a file in the computer. Typically, a document is a file containing ASCII text. It is a file created within an application, for example, a letter created in a word processor or a graph created in a spreadsheet or graphics program.

a collection of information. This includes the common sense of the word, i.e. an organisation of primarily textual information that can be produced by a word processing or data processing application. It goes beyond this, however, to include structured information held within an XML file. Each XML file is considered to contain one document, whatever the structure and type of that information.

a file you create, as opposed to the application which created it.

system software: A file on the computer containing information to be acted upon (as contrasted with an application which does the acting).

An item of information that users want to retrieve. It could be a text file, a Web page, a newsgroup posting, a picture, etc.

Any self-contained piece of work created with an application program and, if saved on disk, given a unique file name by which it can be retrieved. See also: filter; property cache

The data that makes up a business transaction, such as an invoice, purchase order or ship notice.

In EDI, a form, such as an invoice or a purchase order, that trading partners have agreed to exchange and that the EDI software handles within its compliance-checking logic.

In DocBook, a well-formed or valid XML document, with a single root element that contains the document's content.

A "document" is a series of elements that are defined by a markup language (e.g., HTML 4 or an XML application).

An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything.

Proof of business transaction.

Certificate, document for the proof of a fact.

For the purpose of this specification, "document" refers to content supplied in response to a request. Using this definition, a "document" may be a collection of smaller "documents", which in turn is a part of a greater "document".

A document is a language version of a content item. Each document has the following properties: the language, the content length, and the last modification date. The document provides access to its content via the methods getInputStream() and getOutputStream().

For this program, a document is the virtual representation of a particular 3D view of the model. A document view is created by scaling the 3D model view to the document coordinates using the user-defined scale factor (e.g. 1 inch = 1 foot) and adding the user-defined margins. If the document is to large to fit on the output device, it is automatically broken into pages covering the whole virtual document.

In Internet terms, it is any Web page to which you can link.

Unit of information sent from servers to clients (e.g., a web page).

An electronic document is a collection of one or more digital images (pages).

A document, or web document, is a resource on the World Wide Web that has a distinct web address. It could be an embedded image, whole web page, pdf or any other component of a web page. A document can be any kind of MIME type.

Related Terms: record, hit, page, web page, URL, result, content A unit of data indexed and searched by a search engine; typically each document is equivalent to a web page on a web site, or perhaps a Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF file, or a record in a database.

As used here, any kind of information on the network that someone might want to locate. For example, web pages, word processing documents, web sites, and so forth. Netscape Compass Server locates and indexes documents so that you can easily search for them. In this context, document and resource mean the same thing.

A web page that contains news or other content that is relevant to your search.

A document is a stream of data that, after being combined with any other streams it references, is structured such that it holds information contained within elements that are organized as defined in the associated DTD. See Document Conformance for more information.

Information and its supporting medium. A set of documents is often called documentation.

Document is a collection of information or instructions presented to perform some activity in a process/procedure.