Wholeheartedly agree with this one, Karl. I am starting to see (ok... it's more like I'm starting to say to everyone) that the good old term "vital records" needs to be dusted off and put back into play. We are long past the days where organisations could "keep everything, just in case" - whether it be for financial, security, or efficiency (or other) reasons. Only by starting at the front end of the record journey (i.e. pre-creation) can information managers offer a service that brings systemic benefit to a workplace.
We are so different! I think ephemera is where it's at - it's the current state of the organisation, and managing it well is the difference between having an organisation or a disorganisation. Why would you start with vital records - I understand that from the point of how you sell it to an organisation, they give you something clear and tangible that you can sell, but to me they don't play into how an organisation operates often enough that you can continue to refine and improve the organisation based on them.
You've only just now worked out that we're different? lol
I wonder if it depends on how you define ephemera (ignoring any clinical definitions for the moment). Ephemera = interesting, but not critical to an organisation getting its daily job done (at least, not any more). If the organisation needs its ephemera to understand how to improve, maybe it's not ephemera?
Gosh, now I feel transcendental lol!
Maybe it's the difference between records management and archivistics, which lends itself more to the capture and care of information of historical value?
Wholeheartedly agree with this one, Karl. I am starting to see (ok... it's more like I'm starting to say to everyone) that the good old term "vital records" needs to be dusted off and put back into play. We are long past the days where organisations could "keep everything, just in case" - whether it be for financial, security, or efficiency (or other) reasons. Only by starting at the front end of the record journey (i.e. pre-creation) can information managers offer a service that brings systemic benefit to a workplace.
We are so different! I think ephemera is where it's at - it's the current state of the organisation, and managing it well is the difference between having an organisation or a disorganisation. Why would you start with vital records - I understand that from the point of how you sell it to an organisation, they give you something clear and tangible that you can sell, but to me they don't play into how an organisation operates often enough that you can continue to refine and improve the organisation based on them.
You've only just now worked out that we're different? lol
I wonder if it depends on how you define ephemera (ignoring any clinical definitions for the moment). Ephemera = interesting, but not critical to an organisation getting its daily job done (at least, not any more). If the organisation needs its ephemera to understand how to improve, maybe it's not ephemera?
Gosh, now I feel transcendental lol!
Maybe it's the difference between records management and archivistics, which lends itself more to the capture and care of information of historical value?