Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

ISBN-13: 9781856046411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str.

Professor Steve Bailey

Opis

The evolution of Web 2.0 is continually changing the way users create and use information. Records managers must adapt to the constant change if they expect to survive. This provocative new book challenges records managers to reflect on these changes and to confront their once reliable methods and practices. Why not embrace folksonomies rather than classification schemes and metadata schemas as the main means of resource discovery for unstructured data? Why not adopt a ranking system that encourages users to rate how useful they found content as part of the appraisal process? Why not let the content creator decide whether there should be any access restrictions on the content they have created? Every records manager needs to read this challenging book, and those who do may never think about their profession in the same way again.

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PART 1: THE NATURE OF THE CHANGING WORLD 1. The big picture: Web 2.0 and current trends in IT Questions addressed in this chapter What is Web 2.0? Similarities and differences compared to Web 1.0 IT trends: blurring the boundaries IT trends: the exponential age 2. The reality check: surely change is endemic in IT? Questions addressed in this chapter Change as the only constant in IT The familiarity of the office of 1997 The first IT paradigm The second IT paradigm 3. Web 2.0 and Office 2.0: enter the third paradigm Questions addressed in this chapter Blogs Wikis Collaborative editing tools Social bookmarking and tagging 4. Welcome to the world of Office 2.0 Questions addressed in this chapter The scenario Outsourcing e-mail Perceived limitations of the client-server based document management system A successful wiki pilot Online applications: the next logical step Keeping up with insatiable user demand Boundless potential PART 2: IS RECORDS MANAGEMENT NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE? 5. The need for critical professional self-examination Questions addressed in this chapter The importance of continued professional reinvention The gulf between theory and practice 6. ‘Not all information sources are records ...' Questions addressed in this chapter The inherent value of records The consequences of our focus on records The dangers of being cocooned from change The power and value of information 7. The centralized command and control ethos Questions addressed in this chapter Records management as a bottleneck The records manager as jack of all trades, master of none Folksonomy vs taxonomy The death of the classification scheme? The difficulties of applying a classification scheme within the Web 2.0 enabled office Problems of scalability 8. ‘Regardless of format…' Questions addressed in this chapter Did the concept of management ‘regardless of format’ ever really make sense? A world of silos The decline of the common underlying storage facility Integrated Office 2.0 suites 9. Appraisal, retention and destruction Questions addressed in this chapter Definitions The origins and traditional rationale for retention management The pros and cons of random selection Why not keep everything? What about the smoking gun? But keeping everything is not a panacea either 10. The problems with applying existing approaches to appraisal in the Web 2.0 world Questions addressed in this chapter Appraisal theory and reality Scalability Scope and detail Failure to adequately assess information value alongside evidential value The role of the user and demands placed on them Conclusion: one size does not fit all

O autorze

Steve Bailey