Their key feature is they can be trusted as authoritative records without a single, central authority guaranteeing accuracy and security.
The resulting database of the Muncie, Ind., library ledgers, "What Middletown Read" (www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr/), is one of the few authoritative records of American reading.
As he put it in a letter, he was eager "to do a really authoritative record of how we like it to go & what it is all about".
A cat res, in the art world shorthand, is an authoritative record of an artist's oeuvre, to be consulted by scholars, gallerists, dealers and collectors.
History and civilisation are an authoritative record the mind has left, is leaving, and will leave, and objectivity deserving the name would take this record as a starting point.
The problem of the relationship between revelation and reason arises, on the one hand, because revelation transcends the categories of ordinary rational thought and, on the other hand, because revelation is commonly transmitted by means of authoritative records, the contents of which cannot be verified by the believer.
The United Nations panel, which is seen by diplomats as providing the most factual and authoritative record of developments in Syria, said, "There are reasonable grounds to believe limited quantities of toxic chemicals were used" in Aleppo and Damascus on March 19, in Aleppo again on April 13 and in Idlib on April 29.
An explanation for this can be that a journal article is often a more recent but also a more authoritative record of a study that has been validated by a more elaborate peer-review system.
Walker's objective in Three Mile Island was to write a comprehensive and authoritative history that would serve as an authoritative record for both the interested public and the NRC.
Their official character, however, was clear in that both collections were subsequently acknowledged by courts as authoritative records of imperial legislation up to the date of their publication and regularly updated.
