Comments on: When do we Fixity? http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/14/when-do-we-fixity/ Preservation of Web Resources: a JISC-sponsored project Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: James Currall http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/14/when-do-we-fixity/#comment-730 James Currall Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:53:22 +0000 http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/14/when-do-we-fixity/#comment-730 This all depends on whether or not the blog represents a record. Fixity is part of ensuring the recordiness of a record. Unless something is a record then <strong>irrespective of whether or not it is in a record management system, just declaring that 'this is the final version' does not make it a record</strong> nor does preserving something necessarily make it a record either. We are in the realm of what I was talking about in Aberdeen - different people using the same words to mean (subtly?) different things. Thanks Marieke - you have just given me an idea for an exam question:-) This all depends on whether or not the blog represents a record. Fixity is part of ensuring the recordiness of a record. Unless something is a record then irrespective of whether or not it is in a record management system, just declaring that ‘this is the final version’ does not make it a record nor does preserving something necessarily make it a record either.

We are in the realm of what I was talking about in Aberdeen - different people using the same words to mean (subtly?) different things.

Thanks Marieke - you have just given me an idea for an exam question:-)

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