Evaluating automated approaches against records management principles | Thinking Records

As a profession we are very proud of our principles. If you ever discuss technology with a group of records managers one of us is bound to say ‘records management principles are timeless, regardless of how much or how quickly technology changes’.

But what exactly are these principles?

The time when you most need a set of principles is when new ideas, tools, technologies or approaches come onto being. By definition we have little or no practical experience of these new ideas/tools/ technologies. We need a set of principles which distills our past experience of what has and hasn’t worked, in order to predict whether these new approaches are likely to work.

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