Well, some answeres clarify the problem. It was basicaly the issue of a
private company that wanted to relocate. The National Archives demanded not
to move their archives (here, in Romania, the National Archives has legal
control authority over all archval matters inside the country), invoking an
archival principle "the right of local communities", i.e. if a corporation
acts in a certain geographical space, the records must remain there, because
they related to the local communities. 

My criticisim, apart from legal issues, was pointetd to the fact that this
"principle" was intended for archives only (i.e., for "historical records")
and not for managing active records. I've got the confirmation, because
somebody on this blessed List pointed me to the first archival manual -
Muller, Fruith and another one, from 1898, that defines that "principle".
Indeed, it was intended for "historical archives". So, I presume such a
principle could not be invoked in a matter of active records. 

Have you other experiences? 

Yrs, 
Bogdan-Florin POPOVICI, Ph.D.
Archivist
Brasov 
ROMANIA
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Sent: 12 octombrie 2006 13:21
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Subject: Re: [RM] archival principles

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. 

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