Week 2 - Info Governance and RIM lifecycle

Question 1

What is the stages of the RIM lifecycle?

Answer 1

Capture/creation, distribution and use, storage and maintenance, retention & disposition, archival preservation

Question 2

According to Crockett, records…

Answer 2

arise from work, rather than work aim being to create records.

Question 3

Records Management is about…

Answer 3

systematically keeping track of items that provide evidence of human activity

Question 4

By definition, Records management is concerned with…

Answer 4

information that is recorded or written down as opposed to merely memorized or exchanged verbally

Question 5

8 recordkeeping principles:

Answer 5

Accountability, transparency, integrity, protection, compliance, availability, retention, disposition.

Question 6

Information governance can be viewed as:

Answer 6

a system for directing and controlling an organization information assets. Focuses on the day-to-day execution of specific operations activities that involved recorded info

Question 7

What is a record?

Answer 7

recorded info in any media or format, providing reliable evidence of human activity. They are factual, contain data, and they can be news.

Question 8

Are all archives records?

Answer 8

all archives are records, but not all records are archives.

Question 9

Managing info is about…

Answer 9

organizing it so it can be found and used later on

Question 10

2 Q’s to ask to test if something is a record and how to manage it

Answer 10

What is it a record of? Is it a record of our organization?