Records Management 2.0
It’s a sorry thing to admit, but I have to say that reading a whole book has become something of a distant memory for me these days! So … nice to be able to put that right by racing through Steve Bailey’s new book from cover to cover. It’s called ‘Managing the Crowd: Rethinking records management for the Web 2.0 world’.
Records management … a rip-roaring read? Well, I grant you it might not be everyone’s idea of great night in, but for anyone whose waking hours involves thinking about this stuff - I’d recommend you take a look at it.
Steve’s main contention in the book is that if records managers are not prepared to think outside of their comfort zone, they may be in danger of finding themselves no longer in a profession. Processes and procedures will have moved on and those hanging on to the electronic corollary of earlier paper-based working practices will begin to wonder why no-one in their institution is taking any notice of them anymore.
It ties in quite nicely with the soon-to-be-released JISC PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) Handbook, a section of which addresses the need for a closer working relationship between Records Managers and those with responsibility for institutional websites, and is a timely alert to those institutions to discover what sort of resources they are in danger of losing if they don’t pay attention to web preservation issues.
JISC PoWR blog: http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/
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I found you by Googling “Information Environment” but I’ve known about JISC for some time.
I use the term search environment for my project the Internet Search Environment Number. It aspires to assign a serial number like ISBN and DNS to database or search environment globally.
I am curious about how your definition of information environment and my definition of search environment work. Are we talking about similar things?
Kind Regards,
Matt