Metadata Corner, Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research

Michael Day, Metadata Research Officer, Tel: 01225 323923, Fax: 01225 826838     M.Day@ukoln.ac.uk     (UKOLN)

Ariadne 1997
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:1997:i:10:p:29)

Abstract:

Archivists and records managers share an interest in the archival management and preservation of what are today known as electronic records. Recognition of important issues related to the archival management of electronic records dates back to the early 1970s when archivists began to investigate the accessioning of what were then known as machine-readable data files. It has long been recognised that the archival community and the library community have shared concerns in this area, and this was demonstrated by the recently published report of a US Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information commissioned by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group. These shared concerns mean that other information professionals, including librarians, information scientists and computing scientists, will have an potential interest in the archival community's response to electronic recordkeeping.

Note: In the Metadata Corner for this issue, Michael Day reports from the Working Meeting on Electronic Records Research, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 29-31, 1997. This article appears in the Web, and not the print, version of Ariadne.
Month: Tuesday July 15th, 1997
Year: 1997

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