Fred Grevin and I discussed this several months ago and agreed to disagree.

In my worldview, a record is an abstraction of reality, a representation of something real, sort of a meta-reality.  It is not the actual object.

While others may deal with rocks and core samples, I have encountered laboratory slides, perhaps containing tissue samples.  Tissue is the real thing, not an abstraction, so I don't consider it to be a record.  Descriptions of the slides, an inventory of the slides, and perhaps a use log would be records...not the slides themselves.

In the end, we might ask which world view helps the owning organization achieve its goals/mission better?  As I said, Fred and I agreed to disagree.

Gordy Hoke
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