Reflections on the promise and pitfalls in reinventing recordkeeping metadata

  • Joanne Evans
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2014.911680

Abstract

Transforming recordkeeping metadata management infrastructure lies at the heart of the challenges raised in the 2012 Reinventing Archival Methods Recordkeeping Roundtable Forum and subsequent Access and Appraisal issue papers. Both issues papers give examples of where our current ‘fast paper’ processes, practices and systems fail to deliver for ourselves, our users and ultimately for recordkeeping in society. Most disturbingly is where we are not even at the table as professionals in the situations in which we have a stake, and where there is a desperate need for an archival systems solution.

Author Biography

Joanne Evans

Dr Joanne Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and coordinator of the Records Continuum Research Group, in the Centre of Organisational and Social Informatics. Her research is focused on the multifarious roles metadata plays in creating, managing and sustaining information and recordkeeping infrastructure and systems.

Published
2014-07-30
How to Cite
Evans J. (2014) “Reflections on the promise and pitfalls in reinventing recordkeeping metadata”, Archives & Manuscripts, 42(2), pp. 175-177. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2014.911680.
Issue
Vol 42 No 2 (2014): Special Issue: Reinventing Archival Methods
Section
Reflection articles

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