regarding roots of the word "record."
etymology of record
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=record
record (v.) Look up record at Dictionary.com
c.1225, "to get by heart," from O.Fr. recorder "repeat, recite, report," from L. recordari "remember, call to mind," from re- "restore" + cor (gen. cordis) "heart" (as the metaphoric seat of memory, cf. learn by heart); see heart. Meaning "set down in writing" first attested c.1300; that of "put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc." is from 1892.
record (n.)
c.1300, "testimony committed to writing," from O.Fr. record, from recorder "to record" (see record (v.)). Meaning "written account of some event" is from 1611. Meaning "disk on which sounds or images have been recorded" is first attested 1878. That of "best achievement in sports, etc." is from 1883. Phrase on the record is from 1900; adv. phrase off the record "confidentially" is attested from 1933.
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re·cord Audio pronunciation of "record" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-kôrd)
v. re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords
v. tr.
1. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
2. To register or indicate: The clerk recorded the votes.
3.
1. To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction.
2. To register the words, sound, appearance, or performance of by such means: recorded the oldest townspeople on tape; recorded the violin concerto.
v. intr.
To record something.
n. rec·ord (rkrd)
1.
1. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
2. Something on which such an account is based.
3. Something that records: a fossil record.
2. Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved: the coldest day on record.
3. The known history of performance, activities, or achievement: your academic record; hampered by a police record.
4. An unsurpassed measurement: a world record in weightlifting; a record for cold weather.
5. Computer Science. A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.
6. Law.
1. An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony.
2. An account of judicial or legislative proceedings written and preserved as evidence.
3. The documents or volumes containing such evidence.
7.
1. A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
2. Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded.
Idioms:
go on record
To embrace a certain position publicly: go on record in favor of the mayor's reelection.
off the record
Not for publication: The senator told the reporters that his remarks were strictly off the record.
on record
Known to have been stated or to have taken a certain position: The senator's opposition to the new legislation is on record.
[Middle English recorden, from Old French recorder, from Latin recordr, to remember : re-, re- + cor, cord-, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
record
see break the record; go on record; just for the record; off the record; set (the record) straight; track record.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
re·cord (r-kôrd)
v. re·cord·ed, re·cord·ing, re·cords
1. To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
2. To register or indicate.
n. rec·ord (rkrd)
1. An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
2. A medical record.
3. In dentistry, a registration of desired jaw relations in a plastic material or on a device so that such relations may be transferred to an articulator.
4. The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
5. A collection of related, often adjacent items of computer data, treated as a unit.
Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Main Entry: re·cord
Pronunciation: ri-'kord
Function: transitive verb
1 : to put in a record
2 : to deposit or otherwise cause to be registered in the appropriate office as a record and notice of a title or interest in property <record a deed> <record a mortgage> —see also RECORDING ACT
3 : to cause (as sound, images, or data) to be registered on something in reproducible form <record a telephone conversation> intransitive verb : to record something
Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Main Entry: rec·ord
Pronunciation: 're-k&rd
Function: noun
1 : the documentary account of something <confidential medical records>: as a : an official document that records the acts of a public body or officer b : an official copy of a document deposited with a designated officer c : the official set of papers used and generated in a proceeding <the appeals court reviewed the trial record> d : documented evidence or history of one or more arrests or convictions —see also BUSINESS RECORDS EXCEPTION, PUBLIC RECORDS EXCEPTION
2 : something (as a disc or tape) on which images, sound, or data has been recorded—of record 1 : on the record of the court in connection with a particular proceeding <the attorney of record>
2 : being documented or attested
Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
record
n 1: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events; "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques" 2: the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had; "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league" 3: an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport); "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record" 4: sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves [syn: phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter] 5: the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president" [syn: track record] 6: a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long" [syn: criminal record] 7: a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the recordbooks" [syn: record book, book] 8: a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction; "they could find no record of the purchase" v 1: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: enter, put down] 2: register electronically; "They recorded her singing" [syn: tape] [ant: erase] 3: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, register, show] 4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?" [syn: register] 5: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise]
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
record
<data, database, programming> An ordered set of fields,
usually stored contiguously. The term is used with similar
meaning in several different contexts. In a file, a "record"
probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line
sequence). A database record is also called a "row". In a
spreadsheet it is always called a "row". Some programming
languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
several other types ({C} calls this a "struct").
In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
field values.
Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or
they may be separated by a delimiter character, often
comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).
In a database the list of values of a given field from all
records is called a column.
(2002-03-22)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe
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here are a few recording-related images from a
project on audio-visual media (recording) systems...
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record makes photography and phonography as a
type of writing/graphing - where video, books,
and music (light and sound) would exist as a
an media landscape to excavate informations.
data mining, information archaeology, surveys,
lots of this is in pomo critical theoryviews,
foucault, deleuze guatarri, freud/jung before
with archeology of mind, and archetypes. the
role of memory of recording and data storage.
maybe the most valuable finds of the future
will be thrown away cassette tapes and other
things that will help reconstruct perceptions.
the ideas in relation the stuff materialized.
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here is an example of flow of recording, of a
performance (in traditional space) which is
transmitted/distributed through infrastructure
into a technological reconstruction (cyberspace).
government is facilitated by such a structuring
or mediation of reality; a totalitarian view or
a democratic view may transmit different views
which define what is perceived to be real by
way of representing events for mass consumption.
the potential of ideas are limited/shaped, thusly.
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here is a drawing relating media to building
types. where 'recordings' originate or relate
to programmatic function of today's buildings,
often considered mundane or meaningless if in
terms of modernism, as they are only judged on
their form not their (actual cultural) content.
as such they are extensions of building types,
extensions of the 'plan' of the architecture;
a radio is not a radio without a radio station.
likewise, in this scenarios it is critical as
to the relation of the state (of ideas/affairs)
as to what is mediated, public and privately.
this is a cultural view of commerce/commercial
interests and how they d/evolve the commons.
one might imagine how this media landscape is
capable of constituting a view of the world,
especially one that is privatized if FOX and
Al Jazeera (spelling?) are points of view for
tens to hundreds of millions of consumers, to
represent facts/ideas within cultural biases.
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here is a favorite reconsideration of Venturi
et al's I AM A MONUMENT thesis about mundane
buildings and signage and how buildings have
taken this language in the big box Vegasity.
relating this to nothing:
what is in your mind? thoughts you had, but no longer are in your head?
if you write them down, are they on the device you write them to, but no
longer yours unless you read them or think about them?
what is fascinating to me is that 'mind' may not
be located within the envelope of the human skull.
just as the human heart radiates electromagnetic
fields outside the chest cavity, the visual body
is not the perimeter of the feeling/sensing body,
in terms of thought (esp, or just sensation, as
if having antennas though more like sharks and
other fish/dolphins, say, or eels--) which emit
a series of electric and magnetic fields as a
dipole antenna and anything that goes within
these fields they can see and sense. for humans
thoughts may function like this, and therefore
Plato's ideal forms (archetypes/universals) may
be outside of individuals, or may float about
in entanglements shared by networks of minds,
each of us neurons that connect/disconnect in
ideas, parsing the real, configuring, sensing,
choosing, adapting, redeciding, rewriting, etc.
this then would store, read/write, the memories
of larger and small sets of ideas/perceptions...
to scale across the global system of operation.
Animal Electromagnetism and Waves.
http://members.fortunecity.com/anemaw/
the book 'space, time, and beyond' with Fred Alan
Wolfe, (and Jack Sarfati) is a great introduction
to how quantum experiences may become sensation...
quantum reality
http://www.electronetwork.org/assemblage/zone5/stb.htm
electromagnetic fields can be sensed by humans,
descartes breaking up of reality into mind and
body has been proven wrong (moving mouse cursors/
physical events by mental processing alone (em))
and a natural electromagnetic field can be 'read'
using devices, akin to chakras/biomorphic fields,
etc. the person is literally a wireless circuit
that can be bridged by ideas, given the givens...
thoughts have thus been described (i forget where)
as possibly being events that happen by 'moving
through an electromagnetic field' of a landscape
of ideas (suspended in what is akin to the aether).
this is a diagram of said concept, with Steven Hawking's
concept of 'imaginary time' of the present, included as
a continume of space-time (and place), i've customized
it so that the imagined present is the totality of
past and future space-time-place experienced at once,
potentially, given how one interfaces such matrices...
(memory, emotion, perception, logic, representation)
consideration of public/private culture - the process of recording is always
biased unless a conscious effort is made to try to remove the bias?
(it may be an issue of recognizing/adjusting for bias/
upgrading worldviews/thinking/emotional processing...
so that people have the capacity to engage realities,
and not unthinking/unfeeling behavioral robots, etc)...
about how it might relate as ideas/experiences:
this stuff too. to me it is all (including the
recent 'world' posts) connecting archaeology-
and-architecture, fine-arts and history also.
as part of these closely related endeavors, as
they were also closely related in the 18th c.
during the enlightenment, though this for EM.
(em=electromagnetism/electricity/electronics).
brian