{"id":298,"date":"2016-05-18T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/?p=298"},"modified":"2016-05-18T04:23:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T04:23:52","slug":"records-management-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Records management in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by\u00a0Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis\u00a0on\u00a0
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The\u00a0records management\u00a0landscape is changing. With the rise of digital content, and our increasing reliance on it, changes to the way we manage our records are inevitable. The question is how to manage these changes. Help is on its way with the newly publishedISO\u00a015489-1<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Your records management strategy has to take into account the big picture. This involves understanding the context you operate in, the nature of the business you do and the risks and requirements associated with that business. The good news is that it\u2019s possible to design systems and apply rules so that the records are made and kept properly \u2013 whether they are data, documents or even social media content \u2013 and result in a host of business-enhancing benefits.We asked Cassie\u00a0Findlay, the Project Leader of the working group that developed the standard (ISO\/TC\u00a046\/SC\u00a011\/WG\u00a013), to give us her lowdown on the new standard.<\/div>\n
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Why is records management so important?<\/h1>\n

The creation and management of records has always been important \u2013 from ancient times to today. The key reasons for keeping records have not changed: accountability, efficient business, protection of rights and entitlements and the ability to reconstruct the past. Now, the rapidly changing digital and online world has simply introduced additional reasons to create, capture and manage records well: the shift to data-driven business, open government initiatives, shared and collaborative services, greater emphasis on corporate responsibility and more. You only need to look at the frequency of information management, access and accountability issues being reported in the news to see that the job of managing records is more important than ever!<\/p>\n

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What has happened to justify the publication of the new ISO\u00a015489-1?<\/h1>\n

It has been over ten years since the previous version of the standard was issued. As I mentioned, in this period, we have seen an increasingly rapid shift to digital forms of business. It therefore follows that\u00a0records need to be made and kept in digital environments, and we needed to have a robust set of concepts and principles to underpin new approaches.For example, changing models of business are extending responsibilities for records beyond traditional organizational and jurisdictional boundaries. This requires records professionals to understand and meet a diverse range of internal and external stakeholder needs. These can include increased expectations of transparency in decision making from business and government, the general public, customers, users of services, records\u2019 subjects, and others with an interest in how records are created, captured and managed. Expectations for information security are also becoming increasingly significant to stakeholders within and outside of organizational boundaries. Indeed the very concept of a \u2018record\u2019 has changed. Once, we tended to equate records only with documents and files. However, today we make and keep records in so many forms! But whether they are data, documents or some other form of information, our job remains to properly contextualize and manage them over time.So the concepts and principles described in the latest edition of ISO\u00a015489-1 are designed to enable the creation, capture and management of records in these new environments through time. However, it has been carefully designed not to ignore the needs of paper-based or \u201chybrid\u201d environments and applies equally to these by taking a technology-agnostic approach.<\/p>\n

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In a nutshell, what will implementing the new standard do and for whom?<\/h1>\n

ISO\u00a015489-1 establishes the core concepts and principles for the design, implementation and management of\u00a0policy, information systems and processes allowing people, organizations, governments, private enterprises and collaborative coalitions to:<\/p>\n

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  • Create and capture records to meet requirements for evidence of business activity<\/li>\n
  • Take appropriate action to protect the authenticity, reliability, integrity and useability of records, as well as their business context, and to identify requirements for their management over time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    By taking a principles-based approach, ISO\u00a015489-1 allows for flexibility in implementation while retaining strong direction on what those implementations should be achieving. It sits at the centre of a range of other existing standards and advice on more specific aspects of managing records \u2013 from metadata for records to the analysis of work processes \u2013 and will be complemented by subsequent Parts to complete this guidance, focusing on appraisal and design of systems for records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Is its significance restricted to one sector, or does it have broader business and societal relevance?<\/h1>\n

    ISO\u00a015489-1 has very wide relevance. Every part of society makes and keeps records. They underpin corporate activity, the delivery of government or NGO services and personal lives. Not only is the creation and management of records essential to the conduct of current business and affairs, but it will prove crucial into the future, in that without well-managed records there are no archives.How we make and keep records today can have far-reaching consequences \u2013 think about records of our climate, or buildings and other infrastructure that depend on records to be maintained. There is no sector or part of society that cannot afford to pay attention to the making and keeping of records, especially in the age of digital disruption and change that we live in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    by\u00a0Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis\u00a0on\u00a026 April 2016\u00a0http:\/\/www.iso.org The\u00a0records management\u00a0landscape is changing. With the rise of digital content, and our increasing reliance on it, changes to the way we manage our records are inevitable. The question is how to manage these changes. Help is on its way with the newly publishedISO\u00a015489-1. Your records management strategy has to take into account the big picture. This involves understanding the context you operate in, the nature of the business you do and the risks and requirements associated with that business. The good news is that it\u2019s possible to design systems and apply rules so that the records are made and kept properly \u2013 whether they are data,[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compliancems.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}