2011 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Records Management Journal, Vol. 22 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/rmj.2012.28122aaa.003

2011 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Records Management Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Records Management Journal

"The records-risk nexus: exploring the relationship between records and risk''

Victoria L. LemieuxSchool of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Purpose -- This paper seeks to explore the nexus between records and risks. It briefly traces different conceptualizations and the historical evolution of risk and risk management and analyzes discourse on risk and the use of risk management in the field of records management and allied disciplines such as archives and information science.Design/methodology/approach -- The methodological approach involves searching for and extracting for analysis references to ``risk'' in articles from well-known journals and subjecting the 248 references to a visual analysis.Findings -- The visual analysis reveals 15 distinct, and in some cases conceptually related topics or categories of articles on risk. These are analysed further to create a typology of seven distinct topics of discourse defining the records-risk nexus in the sampled literature.Originality/value -- This paper contributes an analysis of the literature on records and risk that defines the nexus between the two subjects, presents a typology of discourse on the records-risk nexus, and demonstrates the use of an innovative methodology (visual analysis) for analysis of large sets of bibliographic data.

Keywords Records management, Risk management

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09565691011064331

This article originally appeared in Volume 20 Number 2, 2010, pp. 199-216, Records Management Journal

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"Digital recordkeeping: are we at a tipping point?''

Kate Cumming, Cassie Findlay

This article originally appeared in Volume 20 Number 3, 2010, Records Management Journal

"Information governance: information security and access within a UK context''

Elizabeth Lomas

This article originally appeared in Volume 20 Number 2, 2010, Records Management Journal

"Do we need bigger buckets or better search engines? The challenge of unlimited storage and semantic web search for records management''

Lawrence W. Serewicz

This article originally appeared in Volume 20 Number 2, 2010, Records Management Journal

Outstanding Reviewer

Katharine StevensonParliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament, UK