The indiana university electronic records project: Analyzing functions, identifying transactions, and evaluating recordkeeping systems-a report on methodology

Electronic records management

“…The development of electronic records management parallels developments in the record-keeping technology itself. Because of their charge to preserve the noncurrent, but still useful records of their organizations, archivists have found themselves in an unprecedented engagement, in some cases together with government and scientific agencies, in assessing the preservation implications of the new technologies and media on which those records will be created (National Academy of Public Administration, 1989; National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1989;National Research Council, 1995a, 1995b; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Government Operation, 1990); identifying specifications for future record-keeping software and systems, sometimes in collaboration with commercial software developers; and recommending strategies for active record keeping (Heazlewood et al, 1999;National Archives and Records Administration, 1990; National Archives of Canada, 1990 Department of Education, 1994a, 1994bThibodeau & Prescott, 1996; United Nations, Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems, 1992), including analyzing and making recommendations about organizational workflow (Bantin & Bernbom, 1996).…”

Building an Infrastructure for Archival Research

“…Standardization of archival description in UK, Canada, USA and Australia (for example Hurley's Common Practice Rules); authenticity requirements for student record systems (Park); data gathering and analysis in recordkeeping case studies in InterPARES1 and 2; much of the early research on electronic recordkeeping (Bantin and Bernbom, 1996), and research and development projects on functional appraisal and macroappraisal (Cook, 2004) used these techniques (see also entries for Grounded Theory and Action Research).…”

Contemplating Co-creator Rights in Archival Description

“…Although original order has diminished in importance as a descriptive principle as archival materials are increasingly digitized or borndigital, several expanded conceptualizations of provenance have been proposed to address the multiple parties and simultaneity that are increasingly characteristic of the creation of records and archival materials. These include functional provenance (Bantin and Bernbom 1996), ethnicity as provenance (Wurl 2005), and simultaneous multiple provenance and parallel provenance (Hurley 2005a;2005b).…”