ART: Original works of art
Format: artistic media
HISTORY: Records of events described or recorded by someone who participated in / or witnessed the events, or who got their information from others who did. Format: newspapers, documents, letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and contemporaneous news accounts, or any piece of information that is used for constructing history such as artifact of its times. "They provide the intimacy and the immediacy of an on-the-scene perspective that cannot be recaptured in distant, often re-filtered and reinterpreted history. The thesis is often less of stated proposition and more of a subtle revelation."
LAW: The actual law itself whether statutory, administrative (regulations) or case law.
Format: original documents (birth certificates, trial transcripts...etc)
LITERATURE: Original works of literature
Format: manuscripts, records or documents which are used by an author when writing a book or other literary compilation.
PHILOSOPHY: Original works
Format: historical documents
SCIENCE: Original works and thinking; reports on discoveries or events, or the sharing of new information - the first formal appearance of original research.
Format: statistical data, manuscripts, surveys, speeches, biographies/autobiographies, diaries, oral histories, interviews, research reports, government documents, computer programs.
TECHOLOGY: Original research or writings on a subject.
Format: technical reports of the original research or original data, conference literature, patents, theses, and journals.
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