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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Geoffrey YeoPublisher: Facet Publishing Imprint: Facet Publishing ISBN: 9781783302277ISBN 10: 1783302275 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 27 July 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Concepts of information, data and records Background to the book Structure and content Acknowledgements 1. The making and keeping of records: a brief historical overview Record-making and record-keeping over 10,000 years Records, memory and evidence Repositories and their curators Archivists and the emergence of records management 2. Thinking about records and archives; the transition to the digital Fixity and fluidity in the digital domain Adventures over time Record aggregations Archival mind-sets Information: a fifth paradigm? 3. Archivists, records managers and the rise of information Accentuating information in contemporary culture Records management and information governance Information and archives Making connections between records and information: diverse views Managing information ‘as a record’ 4. Finding a way through the hall of mirrors: concepts of information Information and its reification Records management and new concepts of information Information as content or information as affordance? Dissent and debate 5. Records and data The ‘datafication’ of records Further perspectives on data and record-keeping Data and information: some conflicting views Factuality Contested concepts 6. Representation, performativity and social action: why records are not (just) information Representations Speech acts Propositions and performativity Data, computers and the making of speech acts Metadata Doing things with records From speech acts to social acts The ‘information potentials’ of records Information, evidence and other affordances 7. Managing information or managing records? Conceptions and practices of ‘information management’: information as proposition Information management and records management: two peas from different pods? Making use of records despite their imperfections Knowing ‘what was said’ Characteristics of records and information ‘Authoritative’ records and the scope of record-keeping Concluding thoughts: record-keeping present and future The digital deluge Records in an information cultureReviewsFirmly grounded in the history of record-making and record-keeping over 10,000 years, Yeo's book argues that the prevalent discourse which equates records simply with information or data is wrong. His innovative analysis of the performativity of records results in a fascinating new conceptual and practical understanding of the roles of records and archives in social action. Professionals in handling records, information and data, as well as users of records and archives and everyone interested in `the archive', will gain from this perceptive and highly readable book a new comprehension of past, present and future information cultures. -- Eric Ketelaar Yeo's searching examination of claims that archivists and records managers must reinvent themselves and their discipline for an information age draws on an impressive reading and analysis of a wide range of literature. Everyone in the records field or aspiring to enter it should read this book and ponder its many cogent arguments. -- Terry Eastwood 'Yeo argues that ... dilution of records and archives into the surging ocean of information (and its accompanying data deluge) is unwarranted. ... Borrowing from the theory of speech acts developed by John Austin and John Searle, Yeo characterizes records as performative: they help us do a variety of things. Records are actions by other means, as much instruments as they are representations. ... Yeo's book provides a lucid argument for the need for records managers and archivists to resist the song of the information sirens. Philosophically grounded and analytically clear, Records, Information and Data offers a view of records capable of acting as the foundation for a renewed archival discipline for the twenty-first century.'- Juan Ilerbaig, University of Toronto, American Archivist -- The American Archivist * American Archivist * 'Yeo crafts a comprehensive guide to record management in the modern digital and data-driven world, focusing on record-keeping practices ... and how they are changing...Records, Information and Data is the product of extensive research: each chapter includes endnotes and references. Recommended for undergraduates and graduate students interested in records or information management.' - K. J. Whitehair, independent scholar, CHOICE * CHOICE * Author InformationGeoffrey Yeo is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. His previous work for Facet includes Managing Records: A handbook of principles and practice (with Elizabeth Shepherd, 2003), and Managing Records in Global Financial Markets (with Lynn Coleman, Victoria Lemieux and Rod Stone, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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