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• Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

• Records tracking the goods passing through and fees collected at customs, which is the area at a seaport, airport, etc., where goods, luggage, and other incoming items are examined and customs duties levied.

• Photographs made by the process called daguerreotype, which produces a direct positive image on a silver-coated copper plate. They are often mounted in special cases lined with red velvet or leather. They are named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce in the 1830s.

Use for: Data sets

• Information, especially digital information. In common usage in computer science, used as a singular noun to refer to information that exists in a form that may be used by a computer, excluding the program code. In the sciences and other contexts, "datum" is the singular and "data" is the plural, referring to facts or numbers in a general sense. For general reference to facts, use "information."

• Documents, usually executed under seal, containing a conveyance, especially of real estate.

Use for: Journals

• Refers to books containing the daily, personal accounts of the writer's own experiences, attitudes, and observations. Use "journals (accounts)" when referring to an individual's or an organization's account of occurrences or transactions.

• Visual works created or modified using a computer or other digital medium. These products are exhibited in a variety of ways: statically or as interactive concepts that may reveal or obscure their computer origins. For works that use computer machinery intrinsically as a part of the work, use "computer art."

Use for: DAT

• Magnetic tapes on which sound is recorded digitally.
• A magnetic tape format which can be digitally encoded with sound from a source using the digital recording process and played back on a machine capable of reading or decoding the tape.

• Media containing any content that is represented in digital form, meaning it is encoded in an electronic format that uses a series of discrete values (commonly the numbers 0 and 1) to record data and render it machine-readable. Digital media include, but are not limited to, digital audio and video tape, floppy discs, and portable hard drives.

• Photographs created with a digital camera, which is a cameras that acquires still or motion pictures via an electronic sensor and stores them as digital information on a memory device.

• Formal documents conferring some honor, degree, or privilege, especially those bearing record of graduation from or a degree conferred by an educational institution.

• Enumerations of names, addresses, and other data about specific groups of persons or organizations; may appear in alphabetic or graphic format.

• Lists or registers of cases before a tribunal, usually kept by the clerk of the court, identifying the cases, with entries of action taken; used originally in connection with judicial proceedings, now also used in connection with quasi-judicial or administrative proceedings.

• Film genre that presents fact and real situations and people rather than fiction. They typically feature the people, places, and events who are the subjects of the film, rather than actors or sets. Early examples were influenced by television news and used portable cameras.

• Physical or digital representations of a body of information designed with the capacity to communicate. In its broadest sense, "documents" include any item amenable to cataloging and indexing, that is, including nonprint media.

• Lists documenting persons or organizations from which a repository or institution has received gifts or donations.