Historical document, the Glossary

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1. 22 relations: Anthropologist, Archaeology, Archive, Commoner, Data storage, Deed, Digital data, Diplomatics, Document, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Everyday life, Future, Historian, Historical method, Historical source, History, Information, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, National Archives and Records Administration, Ostracon, Primary source, Time capsule.

Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Historical document and archive are documents.

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Commoner

A commoner, also known as the common man, commoners, the common people or the masses, was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neither royalty, nobility, nor any part of the aristocracy.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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Deed

A deed is a legal document that is signed and delivered, especially concerning the ownership of property or legal rights.

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Digital data

Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.

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Diplomatics

Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents.

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Document

A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. Historical document and document are documents.

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Enoch Pratt Free Library

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Everyday life

Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis.

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Future

The future is the time after the past and present.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Historical method

Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past.

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Historical source

Historical sources encompass "every kind of evidence that human beings have left of their past activities — the written word and spoken word, the shape of the landscape and the material artefact, the fine arts as well as photography and film." While the range of potential historical sources has expanded to include many non-documentary sources, nevertheless "the study of history has nearly always been based squarely on what the historian can read in documents or hear from informants".

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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Information

Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform.

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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.

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Ostracon

An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.

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Primary source

In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

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Time capsule

A time capsule is a historic cache of goods or information, usually intended as a deliberate method of communication with future people, and to help future archaeologists, anthropologists, or historians.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_document

Also known as Historical Documents, Historical information.