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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – The Australian Records Management Case

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Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity (iConference 2023)

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Abstract

Intrigued by the information management replacing records management phenomenon, this study aimed at shedding light on it. Relying on preserved websites, the study examined relevant contents from 2007 to early 2022. It discovered the battle between records and information, and later on information asset. This battle incurred dazzling changes in managerial considerations, yet the challenges to management – either towards records, information, information and records, or information asset – remained the same. So were the unsatisfactory outcomes. A case seemed perfect to tell the plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose story. It is our hope that future studies can gather mighty strengthen and thus settle down the records-information battle once for all.

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Notes

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    Note that in Table 1, the date for Information governance’s occurrence on the menu is 20160302. The discrepancy is caused by the different tracing URLs. For Table 1, the URL for records management was used and here, the URL for Information governance was used. The rest is all on the Wayback Machine.

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  1. School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Sherry L. Xie, Yubao Gao & Linqing Ma

  2. Center for Digital Records Management Research, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Sherry L. Xie & Linqing Ma

  3. Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Data Knowledge of the Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Sherry L. Xie & Linqing Ma

  4. Center for Archival Undertakings, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China

    Sherry L. Xie & Linqing Ma

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Xie, S.L., Gao, Y., Ma, L. (2023). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – The Australian Records Management Case. In: Sserwanga, I., et al. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13971. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_5

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