Information resources consist of content that comes in various physical and digital formats.

Information Resources

A piece of information within a document that serves a distinct communicative purpose.

Functional Unit

A set of rules and activities established in order to lengthen the physical life of a record

Information Preservation

The level of detail and understanding offered to the consumer in a piece of information.

Comprehensibility

Refers to data, documents, and content that is tangible and educational. 

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There are three distinguished uses of the term:

1. Information-as-thing

2. Information-as-process

3. Information-as-knowledge

The Three Forms of Information

Buckland, Michael K. "Information as Thing." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42.5 (1991): 351-60. https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/thing.html

Information as a Thing

When someone is informed, what they know is changed. 

In this way, "information" is the act of informing, communicating knowledge, to someone, or the act of receiving knowledge. 

Information as a Process

"Information" as knowledge is the fact, subject, or event that an individual consumes and/or communicates

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