What is it about?
The landscape in which the records managers is changing at a very fast pace. Not only new tools and new shapes of information arise, but the whole context of the work is changing. That means that the records management profession needs to change its DNA. Helped by philosophers like Alessandro Baricco and Luciano Floridi, and by new emerging discplines in the feld of information science, the author describes this changing landscape and the corresponding needs for changing the records management profession.
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Why is it important?
The future of authentic information is at stake. That is what we are talking about.
Perspectives
The article has had a profound impact on change management projects like at the European Central Bank. It was used as the basis for several lectures for, among others, the International Council on Archives, the American Records Management Association and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
drs. Frans Smit
Gemeente Almere
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This page is a summary of: The metamorphosis of the records manager, Comma, January 2013, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/comma.2013.2.7.
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