Records management
Definition
Records management is The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records (ISO 15489-1: 2001 Standard)
Source: Comparative Analysis of Methods and Tools for Nuclear Knowledge Preservation
Records management is Template:Records management 2
Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations
Summary
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Description 1
The ISO 15489-1: 2001 standard [14] defines it as “The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records.”
Source: Comparative Analysis of Methods and Tools for Nuclear Knowledge Preservation
Description 2
A means of helping an organization to make sure it is creating and maintaining an adequate documentary record of its functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions, whether in paper, film, electronic record, or some other medium. Records management thus helps the organization to decide which records to keep and which to destroy and how best to organize them all. See also Document management.
Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations
References
[14] INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION, Information and documentation — Records management — Part 1: General, ISO 15489–1:2001(E), ISO, Geneva (2001).
