Larry, content without context if meaningless. Say I pulled an email to
me regarding a budget discussion, then, as if by magic, that email ended
up in the records of Megagopolis Corp. The content would not have
changed, but the context would render the record meaningless and
valueless. In addition, the content to a large extent is actually
created by its context - my Records Management function, for example,
doesn't write police reports, much to my great disappointment. This is
critical, because in the ever expanding technical records keeping
universe, its not content that is most at risk of being lost or
distorted (it is, in fact, proliferating at an astronomical rate), its
context. The on-going value of these records derives from maintaining
the context that gives their content meaning.

Dwight Wallis, CRM
Records Administrator
Multnomah County Fleet, Records, Electronics, Distribution and Stores
(FREDS)
1620 S.E. 190th Avenue
Portland, OR 97233
Phone: (503)988-3741
Fax: (503)988-3754
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