Document Records and Content Flashcards
Formats of document
(Physical) Paper, physical material, film records, microfiche
(Electronic) email, attachments, documents, databases, websites
Records management includues
keeping records safe from their creation or receipt through processing, distrubution, organisation and retrieval to their ultimate disposition.
Document management
storage, inventory and control of electronic and paper document
What is the relationship between documents and records
records are a subset of documents
Content management
The organisation, categorisation and structure of data/resources so they can be stored, published and reused in multiple ways.
Significant records
evidence of the organisations business activities and regulatory compliance
Vital Record
A record required in the case of disaster to resume the organisations operations in the event of a disaster e.g., liscenses
Taxonomy
technique of classification (controlled vocabulary)
Ontology
type of model that represents a set of concepts, occurences/instances of those concepts and their relationships within a business domain.
Also includes event and processes within that domain.
Narrow but deep.
Example Ontologies
FIBO (finance industry business ontology - describes trades, swaps, future trades etc and how these all work)
IDO (infectious disease ontology - categories of diseases, all their details)
Five types of of taxonomy
flat
Hierarchical
poly
Facet
Network
Flat taxonomy
no relationship between the controlled set of categories (all items are equal)
Hierarchical taxomy
tree structure e.g., geography based fields
Polyhierarchy
tree structure with more than one node relation rule, i.e., child nodes have multiple parents.
Parents may also share grandparents.
Facet taxomy
Star like, where each node is associated with the centre node.
Network taxomy
both hierarchical and facet
Document/record lifecycle
Inventory -> policy -> classification -> storage -> retrieval & circulation -> preservation & disposal
Three types of control schemes
- custody
- revision
- formal
Custody control
least formal control, requires safe storage and means of retrieval