As ARM professionals, we should stand by and make use of the authority and  
international consensus we have in the definition used in ISO-15489-1,  Terms 
and definitions.3.15:  "records: information created, received, and maintained 
as  evidence and information by an organization or person, in pursuance of 
legal  obligations or in the transaction of business." P. 2.  And remember to 
distinguish between "record" and "evidence" which is  defined in laws (e.g., US 
Federal Rules of Evidence, Section 401, 
_http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rules.htm#Rule401_ (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rules.htm#Rule401) ) 
that  includes records, and more, but in no way diminishes the evidentiary  
characteristics of records; and related legal terms (e.g., "legacy data" in  
sources such as the Sedona guidelines, http:/www.thesedonaconference.org)  


Regards,

Rick

Rick Barry
_www.mybestdocs.com_ (http://www.mybestdocs.com/) 
Cofounder, Open  Reader Consortium
_www.openreader.org_ (http://www.openreader.org/) 

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