Open Directory - Reference: Archives: Records Management
See also: - Portal site for Irish records management. Includes news stories, links to professional organisations, consultants and providers of professional services, downloads for relevant standards and legislation and impartial advice. - Open forum to develop the Dublin Core metadata standard. - Guiding statement on information governance based on eight recordkeeping principles published and copyrighted by ARMA International. - A site detailing electronic recordkeeping at Indiana University. Includes documentation relating to the electronic RM project, and various papers and presentations. - A non-profit organisation developing new approaches to the problems of managing public sector records in developing countries. Includes information on its educational, research and country project work. - This infoKit is aimed at people in Further and Higher Education who are new to the discipline of records management. The infoKit provides a framework based on a simplified version of the Australian National Archives DIRKS programme for managing business information. - The objective of this toolkit is to provide Records Managers and other information professionals with a 'one-stop shop' for impartial, detailed and practical advice of use during all the stages of a proposed or actual EDRM system implementation that is free from vendor bias and specific to the needs of the FE/HE sector. - News and articles covering both public and private sectors. Topics include copyright, patents, trademarks, knowledge management, data protection, freedom of information, intellectual property, taxonomy and customer care. - Notes on metadata and data management (digital library and electronic document management). - Project for the update and extension of the Model requirements for Electronic Records Management. The original version of this document has, in the five years since it was published, become a de facto standard for ERM and has been translated into ten languages. - This site provides advice and guidance to records managers across UK central government. - The Records Continuum Research Group (RCRG) is looking at methods of analysis which enable records to be controlled at different points in time throughout their lifespan. This includes the way records are represented, used, retrieved and disseminated. The group is also looking into how continuum models apply to information management and data archiving. - A mailing list for UK records management professionals. - Official site of the UK authority on information rights in the public interest. Provides resources for data protection and public information . - The National Archives provides advice and guidance to records managers across UK central government. - Dedicated to providing educational information about the protection of important official records from fire, disasters, theft and other dangers to risk management experts, small business owners, government officials, and corporate executives.
