This is a follow-up to the long message I wrote in response to Natasha
Khramtsovsky's comments.

 

I thought of a brief way of addressing her concern about the nature of
backup content reintegrated into the records system.

 

A record is what the creator (i.e. the individual or organization making or
receiving recorded information) treats as a record (by making, receiving, or
using it in the course of an activity and keeping it in connection with such
activity for further action or reference). Backups' contents do not have the
nature of records but, when treated as records by seamless integration in
the records system and by using them in the usual and ordinary course of
business in connection with the activity to which the "original" records
participated, the integrated contents treated as records becomes records. 

 

I hope this helps.

 

Luciana

Dr. Luciana Duranti 
Professor, Archival Studies
School of Library, Archival, and  Information Studies
The University of British Columbia | The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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Phone 604 822 2587 | Fax 604 822 6006
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Director I Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and
Archives
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