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Date: | Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:25:49 -0400 |
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The term "capture" is appearing more and more in conversation and in
the literature. Most recently the word appeared in an email from
Rick Barry to the Arcan-l listserv in connection with the Indiana
University Electronic Records Project. The sentence read in part:
"the project...addresses the capture of electronic records from
transaction-based systems"
My question is, what exactly does "capture" mean? I have heard it
used in a number of different contexts and am unsure as to its
essential meaning as a result.
It is not included in the SAA archives glossary (1992), nor in the
ARMA glossary (2000). I checked on the web and the only definition I
found was this one on the Webopedia tech glossary site:
"To save a particularly state of a program. The term capture often
refers to saving the information currently displayed on a display
screen. You can caputre the screen to a printer or to a file. The
act of saving a display screen is called a screen capture. Video
capture refers to storing video images in a computer.
The term capture is also used to describe the recording of keystrokes
during the definition of a macro."
Do you agree with this definition or do you have another (better)
one? I would appreciate comments on this.
Thanks.
Leith Peterson
Archives/Records Consultant, London, Ontario
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