Records Management Journal: Volume 13 Issue 1

Are ISO 15489‐1:2001 and ISAD(G) compatible? Part 1

Elizabeth Shepherd, Victoria West

Part 1 of this article presents a provisional set of metadata elements for the implementation of ISO 15489‐1:2001 Information and Documentation – Records Management. In Part 2 the…

Metadata, controlled vocabulary and directories: electronic document management and standards for records management

Alistair Tough, Michael Moss

The authors argue that the development and use of elaborate embedded directory structures or file plans, derived from functional analysis, should be a key component in the future…

The Scottish Postgraduate Archives Training Project – issues for the records management community

Frank Rankin

The Scottish Postgraduate Archives Training Project sought to gauge the feasibility of establishing postgraduate education for archivists and records managers in Scotland. The…

Obstacles to utilization of information held by archival institutions: a review of literature

Henry N. Kemoni, Justus Wamukoya, Joseph Kiplang’at

The paper reviews literature on the obstacles that hinder the use of information held in archival institutions. First, it highlights the importance of records and archives as…

Note from the publisher

Blurred lines: records management in the knowledge management arena

Ceri Hughes

Editorial

Catherine Hare