One way of thinking through the question of how AI can augment, strengthen and extend records management, is to ask:

what are the most effective approaches that we already have without AI? what are the strengths of the best approaches and how far do they get us? what are the limitations of even the best approaches? what therefore is the gap that AI (and data ...

One of the founding principles of archival science is that the original order of records should be respected. If an organisation was to retrospectively restructure a set of records, in a way that obscured or lost the original order, then this would risk giving a misleading picture of:

how content had accumulated how people had worked who had known what, when, in...

Data science techniques can be applied in any domain (medicine, psychology, marketing, baseball, records management etc.). In order for data science techniques to be used effectively, a combination is needed of:

sound intuitions about how these these techniques work sound intuitions about the domain they are being applied to

Imagine you are working with a da...