LAR5530

Managing the records continuum

The course covers the socio-legal and technical environments of recordkeeping, the technical environments and the specific roles of recordkeeping at the document creation, record systems, organisational and social dimensions. It explores the adaptation of traditional theoretic principles such as diplomatics and applies them to document management techniques; business acceptable communications in the form of authentic and reliable evidence of transactions; requirements to maintain evidence of transactions over time and space in the form of corporate memory in order to meet individual and organisational accountability requirements; wider social and cultural demands on recordkeeping to maintain a continuing collective memory over time and space. Specific techniques, innovative practice and research findings are taught in an environment aiming at defining best practices for the profession.

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