Generally the guidance is that the decision on whether to keep drafts or
not depends on the case, and the decision is taken by the author. For
example, as a consultant I file any draft of any report which I send to
a client, but destroy all others; and many public sector persons file
copies of drafts they have submitted to their bosses, similarly. So, in
general, it is up to the "author".
Marc Fresko
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Sent: 27 May 2005 10:32
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Subject: retention guidelines: drafts
Hi
Would appreciate some comments on disposing of 'drafts' from within an
EDRMS. For instance a document goes through say five versions and a
final version is declared a a 'record'. (Am noting the S.O.P.
Guidelines 1.7.0 and Democratic Processes 1.5 from the RMS Guidelines)
I advise deleting the five 'drafts' but metadata exists stating that the
'record' had previous versions. Should the previous versions be
retained? Thanks for reading this
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