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Introduction to Records & Information Management (RIM)

Records information management (RIM) involved the administration of all business records throughout their life cycle. According to the ISO 15489-1:2016 standard, records management activities include "the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records”


What is Records & Information Management?

Glossary | Glossary of Records Management Terms by Smithsonian Institutional Archives

Wed | Records Management Resources by the University of Victoria

Slides | Records Management: An Introduction by Emerson O. Bryan, CARICAD

Web | Government Records FAQ by the Archives of Manitoba

Handbook | Enterprise Information Management Handbook by GNWT

Article  | Dispelling Myths Records Retention in Canada

Article | Why is RIM important? by UNBC

Article | Overall File Management FAQ by SIA

Newsletter | Monthly RIM online viewer by ARMA

Article | What’s most businesses’ missing link? – a filing strategy by Clinton Vallis

Article | Current state of play: records management and the cloud by Katherine Stuart & David Bromage

Article | Managing Records in the Modern Office: Taming the Wild Frontier by John McDonald

Article | Electronic Records Management and Public Accountability: Beyond an Instrumental Approach by Albert Meijer

Article | The impact of information culture on information/records management by Proscovia Svard

Article | Accountability, open government and record keeping by Alistair Tough


Standards in RIM

Information and Documentation Records Management:

  1. Standard | ISO-15489-1:2016 Concept & Principles

  2. Standard | ISO-15489-2:2001 Guidelines

Information and Documentation Records Management Processes: Managing Metadata for Records:

  1. Standard | ISO-23081:2006 Principles

  2. Standard | ISO-23081-2:2021 Conceptual & implementation issues

  3. Standard | ISO-23081-3:2011 Self-assessment method

Information Systems for Records:

Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments:

Information and documentation:

  1. Standard | ISO 13008:2022 Digital records conversion and migration process

  2. Standard | ISO/TR 13028:2010 Implementation guidelines for digitization of records

  3. Standard | ISO 17068:2017 Trusted third party repository for digital records

Information and documentation:

  • Standard | ISO/TR 26122:2008 Work process analysis for records


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Where Do I Begin? Understanding a Record's lifecycle

Handbook | Records & Archive Management Handbook by University of Adelaide

Article | Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach by Gail Hodge

Web | Records Management: Vital Records by James Madison University

Web | Records Lifecycle by Ohio State University Libraries