**Apologies for cross-posting**
Joanne Evans who works with Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward at Monash
University, Australia is in the UK and is giving a lunchtime talk next week to
staff/students in the School of Computing Engineering & Information Sciences,
Northumbria University. If you are interested and able to join us please feel
free to come along. There is plenty of space. Details below.
Regards
Julie
Julie McLeod
Professor in Records Management & Programme Leader MSc Records
Management (Distance Learning)
Wednesday 29 April 1-2pm, Room E005 (Ground Floor) Block E, Ellison Building,
Northumbria University (opposite 10 on map
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/brochure/visit/campus_branch/ncle_cmp/city_c
ampus/)
'Discovery and innovation: action research within communities of practice'
Dr Joanne Evans, Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, The
University of Melbourne, Australia.
The challenge of ensuring the authenticity and integrity of records in digital
and networked environments is having a profound impact on the recordkeeping
profession. With methods based on paper recordkeeping models unable to
cope with the exigencies of recordkeeping in electronic environments,
innovation in theory, research, practice and tools has become paramount. This
presentation will outline the use of action research in the Clever
Recordkeeping Metadata Project
(http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/crkm/). This
research project brought together researchers and practitioners to investigate
requirements for recordkeeping metadata interoperability through the
attempted iterative development of a demonstrator of how standards-
compliant metadata could be created once in particular application
environments, then used many times to meet a range of business and
recordkeeping purposes. Through the systems development process and
reflective evaluation of the prototypes, insights into how both recordkeeping
metadata practices and models should be developed were gained, thus
progressing both theoretical understandings and their instantiation in
processes, technologies and tools. A key outcome from the project was the
need to foster such research partnerships for further discovery and innovation.
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