Hasil untuk "Business records management"

Jonathan D. Linton, George T. Solomon

Jessie Danqing Cai

Ruth Frendo

PurposeContemporary practices of information management tend to approach information as discrete and decontextualised units. The creation and capture of electronically generated metadata, specific to individual transactions, have become a primary concern of the archival and records management literature. The prevalent model of discrete metadata capture lends itself easily to automation, but it cannot emulate the intellectual control offered by traditional classification structures such as file plans. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the literature.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a critical review of literature.FindingsRecognition of contextual structures and relationships cannot at present be automated, natural language processing capabilities are poor, and metadata can easily become decoupled from “disembodied” discrete units of information. Discrete metadata capture has been developed in the context of commercial transactions rather than information management.Practical implicationsFile plans as explicit organisations of knowledge can be used to generate contextually significant metadata for records. Such metadata may then be of considerable value to digital curation processes.Originality/valueThis critique will be useful in considering practical approaches to metadata capture.

Julie McLeod

This volume of transcribed and annotated primary sources focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern ‘industrial’ and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool between 1780 and 1832. It incorporates the correspondence of the Wilson family of Sheffield snuff manufacturers (1780-95); the memoir of a Liverpool baker, John Coleman (1797); the diary of George Heywood, a Manchester grocer (1809-15); and the letterbook of the Leeds milliner, Robert Ayrey (1832). Each of the four sets of primary materials contained in the book offers detailed insights into the domestic, familial, ‘personal’ and spiritual lives of their authors and their friends and relations, as well as shedding light on their business dealings and links with the wider communities in which they lived. It is unusual to find such intimate material from relatively modest middling men and women of this period extant, and the survival and publication of these documents provides us with rare vistas onto their experiences, expectations and anxieties. Although different in form, the sources in this volume fit together well due to their shared themes of business and family life, and their subjects’ broadly similar social status and urban settings. Moreover, the volume relates to a variety of current historical concerns including gender, domesticity, marital relations, women’s work and property, the family, urban society and business.

Andy Pope

Lucy O’Brien

Siyi Li, Guanyan Fan

Tae-Suk Choi, Jin-Hee Yim

Moon-Won Seol

Tony Smith

J. McLeod