2. > DEFINITIONS

Web records

All documents or data that are published or transmitted by websites.

Recordkeeping metadata

Data that enables the creation, management, and use of records through time. Recordkeeping metadata can be used to identify, authenticate, and contextualize records as well as the people, processes and systems that create, manage, and maintain and use them.¹

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1. Archiving Metadata Forum. 2000. Recordkeeping Metadata Workshop. Proceedings of the Archiving Metadata Forum June 5-8, 2000, p4.