Editorial

Citation

Hare, C. (2003), "Editorial", Records Management Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/rmj.2003.28113aaa.001

Editorial

The first issue of Volume 13 of the Records Management Journal brings together a set of articles which together address some important and challenging issues not only for the theory and practice of records management but also the development of the records workforce.

Ceri Hughes starts the issue with an opinion piece in which she explores the interrelationship between records management and knowledge management, which has forced its way onto the management agenda with a success not yet achieved by records management.

The first two articles share a common theme – metadata. Elizabeth Shepherd and Victoria West provide the first part of an article which reports on the findings of a research project. The project, funded by the British Academy, explored the compatibility between ISO 15489-1:2001 and ISAD(G) and it is very pleasing that a records management project has received funding from such a source. We hope that this will be followed by others and that we will have the opportunity to publish reports on their findings in the Records Management Journal. (The second part of the article will appear in the next issue of the journal.)

Alistair Tough and Michael Moss from Glasgow University consider the role of metadata and potential for their automatic capture as a key to the future development of electronic records management. With the third article the thread of the theme of metadata is broken but the geographical association is maintained. Frank Rankin reports on the records management issues which emerged from the Scottish Postgraduate Archives Training Project study which is looking to establish professional education provision in archives and records management in Scotland.

The issue concludes with an article from Kenya. The focus is a review of the literature, which is notoriously sparse in some aspects of archives and records management. The topic of the review is obstacles to the utilisation of information held by archival institutions and very interestingly brings into the wider domain literature from some less known sources.

The articles will hopefully stimulate your interest and perhaps encourage you to share with a wider audience work that you are undertaking or opinions that you would like to present. Please contact us if you would like us to consider your work for inclusion.

Details of how to submit items for consideration are provided inside the back cover of this issue.

Catherine Hare