Week 1 Flashcards
Internet & digital industries are getting bigger, more expensive and worse for the planet — producing the same emissions as?
Aviation industry
Is there an established means to store our digital footprint?
No, we just pay more and more for digital cloud storage
How can being a click away from our past damage us?
It MAY impact our ability to form adult identities, among others
What is the main barrier to digital data cleanliness?
Anxiety. There’s too much of it, and a lot of it is too valuable/sentimental.
What do people do with documents besides recording info?
Establishing credit, creating an organization, initiating a lawsuit, a Will, etc
Docs play an important role in?
Shaping the structure of human civilization now and in the future
Main concerns for record keeping and archive management:
Space, creation, access, content management, legal situation and maintenance.
Records management is concerned with having….
Effective control over records to ensure they are created to provide reliable evidence, can be used as an info source, kept in accordance with legislation, and destroyed when no longer needed.
Records management can be broken down into a set of activities:
Needs analysis, records survey, appraisal, current record keeping systems, non current “ “, storage, disposal, vital records & emergency planning, awareness raising, and ongoing review.
Looking after archives can be categorized into functional areas:
Preservation management, appraisal, collecting policy, acquisition, accessioning, archival processing/arrangement/description, access provision, and advocacy.
