I find it really interesting how we get hung up on terminology.  Is there a difference between records and recorded information. All records are recorded information but is all recorded information a record.  After all if someone went to the trouble of recording something perhaps they thought it had some value -- as a "personal" record of their activities if nothing else.

Are photos records?  From whose perspective?  An anthropologist from another planet studying the remains of our civilization 10,000 years from today may consider the photos that you take of an event to be a record of our civilization or lack thereof.  A business or government agency might only consider documentation created within the scope of their employees and contractors position to be records.  A manuscript library which collects documentation of a defunct organizations might see such collections as their records.  It is all a matter of perspective.

David Gaynon
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