1.1.2.2 Recorded Knowledge

Definition: The physical representation or manifestation of man's knowledge and culture (the Social Information endowment under Social Capital). This includes the content of all books, magazines, videos, tapes, film, and other recording media. This includes all electronic data and information that may not appear in written form. This includes all objects of art, history, and archeology. This includes all patents, copyrights, licenses, and trademarks. This does not include any unrecorded, oral knowledge, which would appear under Social Information. This covers recorded knowledge in public or private hands.

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Recorded Knowledge Categories:

1.1.2.2.1 Art: The products of conscious arrangements or productions of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a way that effects the aesthetic sense: production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. This includes all paintings, sculptue, drawings, architectural forms, photographs, and graphics. This includes all written and recorded forms of liturature and the performing arts. This includes written or recorded musical scores and performances. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.1.2.2.2 Artifacts: Objects produced by human workmanship, especially tools, weapons, and ornaments of archeological or historic significance. This includes all known in situ artifacts and associated ruins and archeological sites. This includes human remains. This does not include the remains of all other organisms, which appear under Fossils. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.1.2.2.3 Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Licenses: Legal rights granted to an inventor, author, corporation, or individual for exclusive production, use, publication, sale, or distribution of inventions, literary works, or symbols. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.1.2.2.4 Fossils: Remnants or traces of organisms of a past geological age, as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded in the Earth's crust. This includes the remains of all organisms except humans, which appear under Artifacts. This includes all known in situ fossils and associated archeological sites. (Definition Source: None)

1.1.2.2.5 Scientific and Historical Knowledge: The written or recorded form of all knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction; the sum or range of what has been percieved, discovered, or learned. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)