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You ask, "What is your opinion and/or practice, the archival principles
are aplied to records management issues"?
Could you give more of an angle of inquiry? This is a very big topic, and
one that differs greatly when taken from the philosophical base of the US
model versus the Canadian, and European which have influenced Asian
models.
In my personal philosophy (and put too simply here) archives is integral
to recorded information management. There are specializations as in any
domain, and there is differentiation within the domains. However, I do
not personaly subscribe to the idea that information managment domains are
well served by differentiation at senior levels. It is necessary for
competency at journeymen levels, but a synthisis and over-arching grasp of
the meaning of information resources through time is critical at senior
decision making levels of organizations. Often, archives is approached as
a quasi (and out of touch) library function and RM is approached as a
clerical and warehousing function. Both domains waste their potential in
this way. But one can roll along a long time like that!
You may be interested in developments in knowledge resource managmeent and
intellectual capital assessment (not IP, per se). Metadata definition and
conceptual work in the complex array of values is also an exciting area.
List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
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