JISC will seek to promote the development of good institutional records management across the FE and HE sectors. It will achieve this by raising awareness of the importance of the effective management of records within organisations both for ensuring legal compliance and as a vital element of a digital preservation strategy.
Wherever possible we will encourage institutions to view records management as a corporate function that should be carried out by professionally trained staff. We will support such staff through the creation of specialist toolkits developed for and by the community and the commissioning of studies by leading experts within the profession. All such outputs will seek to encourage the effective management of records throughout their entire ‘lifecycle’ and will apply to all records created or received by an institution, regardless of their format.
JISC will also establish means of supporting those institutions with no prior experience in this area or who are without professional records management staff. This will be achieved through commissioning studies which take such factors into account, encouraging collaboration between such institutions and exploring the means by which they can best learn from the experience of leading institutions in this field.
Records Management will also ensure that JISC’s own records are managed according to best practice and in a manner which not only meets the needs of its executive and its user-community but that also meets and exceeds its legal obligations. JISC will ensure that wherever possible, the experience gained through this process will be shared for the benefit of the FE/HE community at large.
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