Tag Archives: recordkeeping systems
Reinventing appraisal
Kate Cumming and Anne Picot Introduction In 1986 David Bearman first put the argument that core archival methods of appraisal, description, preservation and access were fundamentally unable to cope with the volumes of records archivists were required to process. He … Continue reading
Email – a bellwether records system
Andrew Waugh A bellwether is a sheep with a bell around its neck. Since sheep flock together, the shepherd could track the movement of the flock by the sound of the bell on the bellwether. In a similar way, I … Continue reading
Recordkeeping Roundtable 