Writtenrecorded

Writtenrecorded is a term used in archival science and digital humanities to describe materials that exist in both a written form and a recorded form, or to indicate that a single source carries both modalities. The term is a compound formed from written and recorded, and is not widely standardized.

Used to classify primary sources and metadata: for example, an interview that has a written transcript and an audio or video recording; a diary with a digital recording of the author reading entries; or a manuscript that has accompanying voice recordings.

In archival practice, describing items as writtenrecorded emphasizes the dual modality and informs preservation, access, and metadata needs; it highlights transcription quality, per-recording metadata, and rights management.

In cataloging, the term can guide users to expect both textual content and media-derived materials; it may be used to inform OCR, transcription, alignment between text and audio, and search indexing.

Related concepts include primary source, archival metadata, oral history, transcription, digitization, and multimedia archives.

Notes: Writtenrecorded is not a widely standardized term and can be ambiguous without context. In many cases, it is clearer to phrase materials as "written and recorded" or "text and audio/visual recordings" to convey the dual modality unambiguously.