Records, information and data : exploring the role of record keeping in an information culture / Geoffrey Yeo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeo, Geoffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information storage and retrieval systems--Management.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Libraries--Automation--Management.

Libraries.

Library science--Technological innovations--Management.

Library science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Facet 2018.

Summary:

This dynamic book considers whether and how the management of records (and archives) differs from the management of information (and data). Can archives and records management still make a distinctive contribution in the 21st century, or are they now being dissolved into a wider world of information governance? What should be our conceptual understanding of records in the digital era? What are the practical implications of the information revolution for the work of archivists and records managers? Geoffrey Yeo, a distinguished expert in the global field, explores concepts of 'records' and 'archives' and sets today's record-keeping and archival practices in their historical context. He examines changing perceptions of records management and archival work, and asks whether and how far understandings derived from the fields of information management and data administration can enhance our knowledge of how records function. He argues that concepts of information and data cannot provide a fully adequate basis for reflective professional thinking about records and that record-keeping practices still have distinct and important roles to play in contemporary society.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Contents

Introduction

1 The making and keeping of records: a brief historical overview

2 Thinking about records and archives

the transition to the digital

3 Archivists, records managers and the rise of information

4 Finding a way through the hall of mirrors: concepts of information

5 Records and data

6 Representation, performativity and social action: why records are not (just) information

7 Managing information or managing records?

Concluding thoughts: record-keeping present and future

Index

CHAPTER 1 The making and keeping of records: a brief historical overview

Record-making and record-keeping over 10,000 years

Records, memory and evidence

Repositories and their curators

Archivists and the emergence of records management

Endnotes

References

CHAPTER 2 Thinking about records and archives

Fixity and fluidity in the digital domain

Adventures over time

Record aggregations

Archival mind-sets

Information: a fifth paradigm?

CHAPTER 3 Archivists, records managers and the rise of information

Accentuating information in contemporary culture

Records management and information governance

Information and archives

Making connections between records and information: diverse views

Managing information 'as a record'

CHAPTER 4 Finding a way through the hall of mirrors: concepts of information

Information and its reification

Records management and new concepts of information

Information as content or information as affordance?

Dissent and debate

CHAPTER 5 Records and data

The 'datafication' of records.

Further perspectives on data and record-keeping

Data and information: some conflicting views

Factuality

Contested concepts

CHAPTER 6 Representation, performativity and social action: why records are not (just)information

Representations

Speech acts

Propositions and performativity

Data, computers and the making of speech acts

Metadata

Doing things with records

From speech acts to social acts

The 'information potentials' of records

Information, evidence and other affordances

CHAPTER 7 Managing information or managing records?

Conceptions and practices of 'information management': information as proposition

Information management and records management: two peas from different pods?

Making use of records despite their imperfections

Knowing 'what was said'

Characteristics of records and information

'Authoritative' records and the scope of record-keeping

The digital deluge

Records in an information culture

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783302284

1783302283