What is a record?
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many topics to a number of Internet search engines. Try the terms recordkeeping and archives.
Communication, writing and civilisation
• See 'Earliest Writing' Found on the BBC News Online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_334000/334517.stm
• Read more about the history of writing at http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm
• How did it all start? Visit the Museum of the Alphabet at http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/sitemap.htm
• Follow the history trail on the BBC site to start your family history at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/familyhistory/journey_life/case_history_01.shtml
• Learn about the early Germanic writing known as Runes at http://www.tha-engliscan-gesithas.org.uk/runes/index.html
• Explore the history of communication technology through the ages on the Media History Timeline pages at http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/index.html and other major writings on the topic at http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/or-lit.htm
Human memory and oral traditions: Then and now
• Vital sites for the study of Aboriginal peoples and the law include Bill Henderson's (a Canadian barrister) webpage at http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm
• Find out about cases of oral traditions succeeding in land claims, etc. in Australia and Canada from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Native Title Research Unit at http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/
• Visit sites discussing the protection of aboriginal culture including
Bill Henderson's Aboriginal Arts and Culture at http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/aborlart.htm#9
and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies at http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/
• Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community on the Fourth World Documentation Project Home Page at http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/fwdp.html
• Center for World Indigenous Studies Home Page at http://www.cwis.org/