I’ve been asked to contribute a post or two on Records Management (RM) and preservation, as it relates to this project. There was certainly a paragraph or two in the original JISC Invitation To Tender that made me think it was possible to apply aspects of Records Management to this task:

“A formal records management approach may be the appropriate response to handling certain kinds of web material and this assumes active management of the material throughout its whole life-cycle, an approach which is intrinsic to all preservation-related approaches.”

We think it’s quite likely this line of thinking may apply to University and HFE websites, if the institutional website is being used as a place to conduct business; or is developing into an area where corporate records are being created and stored. A webmaster or a records manager could start to ask a few questions about the organisation’s website: Read the rest of this entry »