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archival - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective archive or archiving .adjective archive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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Two weeks ago, I posted that IDW would be reprinting the Archie newspaper strip in archival hardcovers beginning in 2010.
Dark Horse Publishing Archie Archives Reprint Project » Comics Worth Reading 2009
Prints are offered as limited editions in archival -quality formats at affordable prices.
Boing Boing 2009
The neat trick is to connect the uneasy church-and-state issues that dog Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson (who all play themselves in archival footage, thank you) all the way back to the arrival of the first religion-obsessed New World settlers.
PBS's calm and evenhanded 'God in America' Hank Stuever 2010
If you haven't carefully stored your Food sections in archival binders -- but really, who hasn't?
Chat Leftovers: What's for dinner? Jane Touzalin 2010
If only we could think of some change in archival and communication technology between 1974 and today …
Matthew Yglesias » Modernize the PRA 2009
The National Archives has information on proposed regulations regarding personal data contained in archival /historical purposes:
Data Protection and Archival Material « Cork Genealogist 2008
Rob Pegoraro: Last month, I had the chance to sit down with a guy keenly interested in long-term archival of data -- Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro 2010
Orthodoxy, symbolized by domestic markers of status and respectability derived from European customs, came a generation after initial colonial land claims. 73 Significantly, evidence of this cultural orthodoxy appears in archival sources after a period of contested frontier life.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
The vision of Archivopedia is to offer users the ability to locate or view historical documents and images held in archival , museum, and library repositories around the world in a single search and to encourage professionals, teachers, and students at all levels to use archival documents
December 2007 2007
The vision of Archivopedia is to offer users the ability to locate or view historical documents and images held in archival , museum, and library repositories around the world in a single search and to encourage professionals, teachers, and students at all levels to use archival documents
Archivopedia 2007
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