The date on which the records retention period for a given records series expires and the records may be disposed of, either by destruction or transfer to the Minnesota State Archives.

A digital image file format, JPEG is a lossy compression technique for color and grayscale images. Depending upon the degree of compression, the loss of detail may be visible to the human eye. Files i [..]

An enterprise-wide architecture is a logically consistent set of principles that guide the design and development of an organization's information systems and technology infrastructure.

The ability of a software program or piece of hardware to read files in previous versions of the software or hardware.

The smallest discrete units of digital data. Short for binary digit.

Eight consecutive bits of digital data.

A relatively low quality digital image file format, used most often in word processing applications. BMP format creates a lossless compression. Files end with a .bmp extension.

A checksum is a count of the number of bits in a transmission unit that is included with the unit so that the receiver can check to see whether the same number of bits arrived. If the counts match, th [..]

A type of optical disk storage media, compact disks come in a variety of formats. These formats include CD-ROMs that are read-only, CD-Rs that you can write to once and are then read-only, and CD-RWs [..]

A document with multiple elements (e.g., images, text, animation, hypertext).