I have been told off list that "RK" stands for "Record Keeping (as in
the DIRKS manual)."  This brings me to one of my concerns about our
industry.  We seem to constantly invent or reinvent terminology rather
than standardize it.  I realize that countries have independently
developed methodologies (and resulting terminology) over the years, but
in this day and age of internationalism (and ISO standards) we should be
migrating toward standard terms, not introducing or using non-standard
terms.  

I am not singling out one particular country - I think all countries
have the same issues.  I frequently encounter this localized terminology
issue within the U.S. as well as other countries when working with ISO
terminology standards development.  For example - is "RK" a localized
term?  Probably.  Should we use it in place of a more international term
(as defined in ISO standards) such as "RM"?  I don't believe we should.
I think we need to make a concerted effort within our countries to adopt
as much international terminology (and related definitions) as possible.


Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Information Technology Division
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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Ginny, I think that's either "recordkeeping" or a typo for RM...?

jesse

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