Glossary of recordkeeping terms
This glossary defines key terms and words that are used when working and interacting with public sector records.

About the glossary of terms
The purpose of this glossary is to help people understand the words and terms used when working and interacting with public sector records.
Terms chosen are those used in the NSW public sector and the definitions reflect this usage.
A
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Access | Right, opportunity, means of finding, using or retrieving information. |
Under part 6 of the State Records Act 1998, the public is entitled to access records over 20 years of age. Public access is authorised by public offices making access directions. | |
Access directions | A direction made by a public office to open or close a series, group or class of records in the open access period to public access. An open to public access (OPA) direction allows access to anyone. A closed to public access (CPA) direction closes the records for a specified period. A CPA direction does not affect other entitlements of access. Access directions are made according to guidelines issued by the Attorney General. Public offices can also grant early access to records that are less than 20 years old. |
Accession | A group of records transferred to an archival institution, or to a collection such as the State Archives Collection, at one time from the same source. |
Active records | Records in frequent use, regardless of their date of creation, required to perform current business operations, usually easily accessible to the user(s). Also referred to as 'current records'. |
Activity | Major task performed by a business entity as part of a function. |
The second level of a business classification scheme. An activity should be based on a cohesive grouping of transactions producing a singular outcome. The scope of the activity encompasses all the transactions that take place in relation to it. Depending on the nature of the transactions involved, an activity may be performed in relation to one function, or it may be performed in relation to many functions. See 'Function' and 'Transaction'. See also Business activity. | |
Administrative records | Records that are created to document and support the operational or administrative activities of the agency, such as finance, human resources, communications, office organisation and other facilitative operations. Administrative records are common to most organisations. |
Appraisal | Records appraisal is the process of evaluating business activities to determine which records need to be created and captured as well as how and how long the records need to be kept. It combines an understanding of business activities and their context with:
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Archival value / enduring value | The ongoing usefulness or significance of records, based on the evidential, administrative, financial, legal, informational and historical values that justify the permanent retention of records as State archives. |
Records with archival/enduring value to the State of NSW and which meet one or more of the Building the Archives Policy selection objectives, by providing evidence of:
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Archives |
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Arrangement and description | The process by which archival material is brought under physical and intellectual control to make it accessible to users. Comprises analysing, organising and recording details about records, such as creator, title, dates, extent, and contents, to facilitate the work's identification, management, and understanding. |
Authenticity | An authentic record is one that can be proven to:
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B
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BCS | Business Classification Scheme (see Business Classification Scheme) |
Born digital | Document, record or object, that was originally created in digital form. The term is used to differentiate native digital objects from digitised material. |
Business activity | Any of the functions, processes, activities and transactions of an organisation and its employees, including public administration as well as commercial business. |
Business classification scheme | Tool for linking records to the context of their creation |
Involves the identification and documentation of each business function, activity and transaction and the documentation of the flow of business processes, and the transactions which comprise them. It can be used to support a number of records management processes. | |
Business continuity planning | Documented procedures that allow an organisation to respond, recover, resume and restore operations following a disruption. Typically this covers resources, services and activities required to ensure the continuity of critical business functions. |
Business Process | A set of one or more linked procedures or activities which an organisation carries out its business. |
Business Systems | An organised collection of hardware, software, supplies, policies, procedures and people, which stores, processes and provides access to an organisation’s business information and facilitates its operations. |
C
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Capture | A deliberate action which results in the registration of a record into a recordkeeping system. |
Capture is a designed process which involves incorporating a record into an appropriate system and: a) assigning a unique identifier (either machine generated and readable, or human readable) b) recording or generating metadata about the record at the point of capture c) creating or recording relationships between the records creators and activities they represent. | |
Classification | A structured system of identifying and arranging business activities and the records generated by those activities into categories. |
Closed part | Part of a file that has been separated by date range from the active file to enable ease of content discovery (or in the case of a physical file handling). When a closed part is created, a ‘closed part’ reference is attached as the last action, so that no further documents are added. See also 'File part'. |
Cloud/cloud storage | On-demand delivery of ICT services over a network, commonly over the internet, from a shared pool of computing resources. “Cloud” usually refers to where the solution is provided. Key characteristics of cloud-based services are:
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Conservation | See 'Preservation' |
Consignment | A group of records that are transferred to an archival collection at the same time and belong to the same sequence, need to be kept for the same length of time or have the same storage requirements. |
Context | The information necessary to understand a record’s meaning or evidential value. Context describes the 'who, what, when, where and why' of records creation and management. |
Continuing value | A record of a public office which has ongoing administrative, business, fiscal, legal, evidential or historic importance, as assessed by that public office. |
Control | Section 6 of the State Records Act states that a person or public office has control of a record if the person or public office has possession or custody of the record or has the record in the possession or custody of some other person or public office. An entitlement to control of a record is an entitlement to possession and custody of the record (including by having it in the possession or custody of some other person). |
Controlled vocabulary | A prescribed list of terms, headings, or codes each representing a concept used in describing records or information in an organisation. |
Conversion | Process of changing records from one format to another. |
Counter-disaster plan | A plan for measures to be taken for disaster prevention, disaster response and recovery and the protection of high-risk high value records. The objectives of a counter disaster plan are to:
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CPA direction | Closed Public Access direction See 'Access Directions'. |
Critical records | Records including data that is critical to an organisation's service delivery. Critical records incorporate information in all formats, including all information files that provide inputs to, and in some cases, outputs from critical business applications identified in a risk analysis. Also includes information entities such as data dictionaries, definitions of relationships, and codes used in computer applications See also 'Vital records'. |
Culling | Carrying out the instructions (disposal actions) contained in a retention and disposal authority. See 'Sentencing' and 'Disposal' |
Current records | See 'Active records'. |
Custody | The responsibility for the care and management of archives, based upon their physical possession. Custody does not always include legal ownership, or the right to control access to records. |
Under ss. 11 and 30 of the State Records Act , 'each public office must ensure the safe custody and proper preservation of the State records that it has control of'. The Act entitles Museums of History NSW to control State records, but does not require it to take custody of such records. See 'Control'. See 'Distributed management'. |
D
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Deaccessioning | The process by which an archives, museum or library officially and permanently removes accessioned materials from its holdings. |
Description | See 'Arrangement and description'. |
Destruction | Process of physically destroying, eliminating or deleting records beyond any possible reconstruction. Destruction of State records needs to be documented. |
Digital archive | A designated repository for the storage of digital archives, which ensures that archives are managed and protected, and able to be made accessible. |
Digital preservation | The processes and operations necessary to ensure the continued survival of, and access to, digital records for as long as they need to be kept, protecting them from media failure or technological change. This can involve activities such as the ongoing monitoring, migration and storage of records and metadata management. |
Digital records | Information in any format created, received and maintained by digital means, used as evidence of business transactions and activities, or retained because of legal obligations or other operational requirements. |
Digital signature | Data which, when appended to a digital document, authenticates its origin and integrity. |
Digitisation | 1. Conversion conversion of an analogue document (paper, microform, film, analogue audio or audio-visual tapes) to digital format for the purpose of preservation or processing |
2. Business process routine incorporation of analogue records into business information systems where future actions take place on the digitised record, rather than on the non-digital source record | |
3. Back-capture (project) retrospective, back-capture of existing sets of non-digital records to enhance accessibility and maximize re-use | |
Disaster plan | See 'Counter disaster plan'. |
Disposal | The processes associated with implementing records retention, destruction or transfer decisions as documented in retention and disposal authorities issued by State Records NSW. |
Disposal action | A disposal action in a retention and disposal authority is a statement of the disposal decision for example, "retain a minimum of 7 years after last action, then destroy," or "required as State archives". A disposal action may also be considered to be the implementation of disposal decisions or the activity of disposal. |
Disposal authority | See 'Retention and disposal authority'. |
Disposal class/entry | Defined categories of records within a retention and disposal authority. Each class relates to a discrete activity or group of transactional processes with the same minimum retention period and disposal action. |
Disposal trigger | The event from which the disposal date is calculated, for example, "last action," "expiry of contract," or "x years after date of birth". |
Distributed management | Distributed management is a strategy whereby a public office, or other person, can enter into an agreement with the Museums of History NSW to have possession or custody of State archives. Museums of History NSW retains control of the archives, while they are held in the custody of the public office or person, ensuring their proper management and care through the terms of the agreement. |
Document | Document means any record of information, and includes:
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E
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DRMS | Electronic Document and Records Management System |
Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) | An automated software application designed to facilitate the creation, management, use, storage and disposal of a range of both physical and digital documents and records. Essentially it manages unstructured records and information. An EDRMS may also automate business processes such as workflows and approvals and be integrated with other business systems. |
Enduring value | See 'Archival value'. |
Ephemeral record | The State Records Regulation 2024 defines an ephemeral record as one being of, or having, such negligible or little importance to the public office, as assessed by the public office, that: a) only requires the record to be kept for a limited or short period of time, and b) means the record has no continuing value to the public office. |
Estray | Under s.37 of the State Records Act, a State record is an estray if it is owned by the State or an agency of the State but is not under the control of the public office responsible for the record (except as a result of being under the control of the Authority or of some other person with lawful authority). Examples of estrays are State records owned by the State that have been abandoned or that have been removed from or transferred out of the control of the responsible public office without lawful authority. |
Export | A process whereby copies of a digital record (or group of records) are passed with their metadata from one system to another, either within the organisation or elsewhere. Export does not involve removing records from the first system. |
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FA | Functional Authority - see Retention and disposal authority Previously referred to as FRDA or FRADA |
File | An organised unit of documents grouped together for ease of use because they relate to the same subject, activity or transaction. |
File format (electronic) | Encoding of a file type that can be rendered or interpreted in a consistent, expected and meaningful way through the intervention of a particular piece of software or hardware which has been designed to handle that format. Many file formats are dependent on proprietary software to interpret them. |
File part | A continuation of the same activity or transactions, placed on a new file because the previous file (closed part) contains too many documents to be easily handled, managed or accessed. A file part generally has the same title followed by a part number (e.g. part 2), but a different file number to the closed part. See also 'Closed part'. |
Format | The physical form, medium or computer file format in which a record is maintained or information is stored. For example, paper, microfilm, email, image, Microsoft word document. See File format for (electronic) records. |
Full and accurate records | Full and accurate records are sources of detailed information and evidence that can be relied on and used to support current activities. Records regardless of form or structure, should possess the characteristics of authenticity, reliability, integrity and useability to be considered authoritative evidence of business events or transactions and to fully meet the requirements of the business. |
Function | 1. Purpose or purposes for which an organisation exists. For example, the main function of the Department of Education is to provide primary, secondary and vocational education facilities and services to the residents of NSW. 2. Group of activities that fulfils the major responsibilities for achieving the strategic goals of a business entity. 3. Processes grouped together because they are directed to a specific strategic goal. 4. The highest level of a business classification scheme. |
Functional analysis | Functional analysis is a top-down form of analysis starting with the strategic goals and purposes of an organisation, identifying the programs, projects and processes employed to achieve them and breaking those programs, projects and processors down to the level appropriate to reveal the relationship between them. |
The purpose of this type of analysis is to describe a function through groupings of business activities and transactions that can be linked to their business context. | |
Functional records | Records specific to a particular business role, function, or legislated responsibility. Functional records are specific to a particular public office or those that operate in the same sector (such as: health, local government, universities). |
Functional retention and disposal authority | Retention and disposal authority specific to a particular business role, function, or legislated responsibility. See also 'Retention and disposal authority'. |
Functional thesaurus | A thesaurus that reflects the unique functions of an organisation. |
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GA | General Authority Previously referred to as GDA and GRDA. |
General Authority | Retention and disposal authority for records common to multiple organisations and functions. Includes:
See also 'Retention and disposal authority'. |
GIPA | Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 |
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High risk records | Records which are critical because they facilitate or represent the core business of the organisation. Accidental loss or destruction of such records could result in financial or reputational loss, or mean that the organisation is unable to deliver services, meet legal or regulatory requirements. High risk records may require additional security, for example to protect records containing sensitive, classified or personal information. |
High value records | Records that have continuing (business) value to the Public office or archival value to the State of New South Wales. See 'Continuing value' and 'Archival value'. |
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Inactive records | A record not required for immediate business operations, but which needs to be kept to provide evidence of business activities, for legal or regulatory requirements (including the requirements of retention and disposal authorities), or societal expectations. |
Indexing | The process of establishing access points to facilitate retrieval of records or information. |
Information governance | Processes by which an organisation can obtain assurance that the risks to its information, and thereby the operational capabilities and integrity of the organisation, are effectively identified and managed. |
An approach to managing information assets across an entire organisation to support its business outcomes. It involves having frameworks, policies, processes, standards, roles and controls in place to meet regulatory, legal, risk and operational requirements. Information governance is an essential element of corporate governance that must be aligned with business outcomes and risks. | |
Information management | Planning, collection, control, distribution and exploitation of data and information resources within an organisation, including systems development, and disposal or long-term preservation. |
Information risk | Any risk which relates to the quality characteristics and value of records and information in any form that is created, maintained, transmitted, manipulated, stored, owned by an organisation |
Information security | Preservation of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Other properties, such as authenticity, accountability, nonrepudiation and reliability, can also be involved. |
Integrated pest management | A program of good housekeeping and cleaning, regular inspections and monitoring for pests. |
Integrity | Characteristic of a record that is complete and unaltered; managed in accordance with established policies and procedures; and protected from unauthorised access, with audit trails in place. |
Intellectual control | Systems and processes associated with facilitating the discovery of and access to records and retaining their context. In relation to archives, it includes registration, arrangement and description, classification, provenance, tracking, and the creation of public discovery tools such as finding aids. |
Item | Smallest intellectually indivisible unit of a record, such as a letter, memorandum, report, photograph, sound recording. |
K
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Knowledge management | Range of strategies and practices used in an organisation to harness the insights and expertise of employees and learn from past experiences. |
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Legacy records | Legacy records include those which:
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M
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Machinery of Government (MoG) | The allocation or reallocation of functions and responsibilities between government departments and ministers. Also referred to as Administrative Change. |
Maintenance | The range of processes and tasks for protecting records from unauthorised access, loss or destruction, theft or disaster and retaining their integrity over time. |
Merged thesaurus | A single thesaurus that covers both general and functional terms. |
Metadata | Descriptive information, which enables the creation, management, and use of records through time and within and across organisations. It shows users when, why and by whom records were created or maintained. |
Metadata schema | A logical plan showing the relationships between metadata elements, normally through establishing rules for the use and management of metadata. |
Migration | Process of moving records from one hardware or software configuration to another without changing the format. |
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NAP | See Normal Administrative Practice. |
Native format | The format in which the record was created, or in which the originating application stores records. |
Normal administrative practice | The disposal of ephemeral or facilitative records without the formal authorisation of State Records NSW. The State Records Regulation 2024, Schedule 2 provides an exhaustive description of the practice and examples of records which can be included in the process. |
O
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OPA | Open Public Access See 'Access directions'. |
Open access period | The State Records Act entitles the public to access records over 20 years of age (the open access period). Public offices are required to make access directions for all records in the open access period. |
Open file format | Open file formats relate to electronic files which are:
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Open source software | Open source software is software that can be freely accessed, used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone – that is, does not require propriety systems to interpret the data. Open source software is distributed under licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition. |
Original order | The sequence or grouping in which archival records were originally accumulated or kept by their creator. Maintaining the original order preserves the context of their creation and the authenticity of the records. Maintaining original order can provide valuable evidence about the organisation and how and why the records were created. |
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Personal information | The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 defines personal information as information or an opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion. |
Physical control | Controls relating to the physical aspects of records in custody, in particular the controls around physical access and location. |
Preservation | All measures taken, including financial or strategic decisions, to maintain the integrity and to extend the life of documents or collections. These can include: conservation treatment, digital conversion, migration, digitisation, environmental controls (such as temperature and humidity) and physical housing. |
Privacy | An individual’s right to control the exposure of information about themselves to others. This includes information about their views and their behaviours, as well as personal information about their ages, physical location, and financial details. |
Provenance | Information about the origin of archives, including information about the organisations or individuals that created or maintained those records in the conduct of official activities. |
Public office | Public office (a) means each of the following— (i) a department, office, commission, board, corporation, agency, service or instrumentality exercising a function of a branch of the Government of the State, (ii) a body, whether incorporated or not, established for a public purpose, (iii) a council, county council or joint organisation under the Local Government Act 1993, (iv) the Cabinet and the Executive Council, (v) the office and official establishment of the Governor, (vi) a House of Parliament, (vii) a court or tribunal, (viii) a State collecting institution, (ix) a Royal Commission or Commission of Inquiry, (x) a State owned corporation, (xi) the holder of an office under the Crown, (xii) a political office holder, other than the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, within the meaning of the Members of Parliament Staff Act 2013, (xiii) a body, office or institution, whether or not it is a public office under another subparagraph of this paragraph, that exercises a public function and is declared by the regulations to be a public office for the purposes of this Act, (b) but does not include - (i) the Workers Compensation Nominal Insurer established under the Workers Compensation Act 1987, or (ii) a justice of the peace within the meaning of the Justice of the Peace Act 2002, or (iii) another individual or a private sector entity, except to the extent that section 8 applies. |
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Record | Information created, received, and maintained as evidence and as an asset by an organisation or person, in pursuit of legal obligations or in the transaction of business. |
Any document or other source of information compiled, recorded or stored in written form or on film, or by electronic process, or in any other manner or by any other means. | |
Recordkeeping | Making and maintaining complete, accurate and reliable evidence of business transactions in the form of recorded information. |
Recordkeeping includes the following: (a) the creation of records in the course of business activity and the means to ensure the creation of adequate records; (b) the design, establishment and operation of recordkeeping systems; and (c) the management of records used in business (traditionally regarded as the domain of records management) and as archives (traditionally regarded as the domain of archives administration). | |
Recordkeeping requirements | Recordkeeping requirements are identified during appraisal. They arise from regulatory sources, business needs and community expectations that identify the types of records that should be created and the management framework needed in order to have, and accountably manage, all the business information that is necessary for an organisation. |
Recordkeeping system / records system | A system which captures, manages and provides access to records over time. |
This can include business applications or systems which create and maintain records. | |
Records continuum | The whole extent of a record's existence. In practice, it refers to a consistent and coherent regime of management processes from the time of the creation of records (and before creation, in the design of recordkeeping systems), through to the preservation and use of records as archives. |
Records management | Field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of 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. |
Records management program | A records management program encompasses the management framework, the people and the systems required within an organisation to manage full and accurate records over time. This includes the identification and protection of records with longer-term value that may be required as State archives. |
Records processes | Sets of activities by which records are created, controlled, used, maintained and disposed of by the organisation |
Registration | The primary purpose of registration is to provide evidence that a record has been created or captured in a records system, and an additional benefit is that it facilitates retrieval. It involves recording brief descriptive information or metadata about the record and assigning the record an identifier, unique within the system. |
Reliability | A characteristic of a record: (a) whose contents can be trusted as full and accurate representation of the transactions, activities, of facts to which they attest, and (b) which can be depended upon in the course of subsequent transactions or activities |
Retention and disposal authority | Documents authorised by the Board of the State Records Authority NSW that set out appropriate retention periods for classes of records. There are two main types:
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Retention period | Minimum period of time for which records should be kept to meet regulatory, business and community requirements before they can be destroyed. |
Risk assessment | An overall process comprising a risk analysis and a risk evaluation. |
Assessing risks for records processes and systems should be included in the organisations general risk management program. |
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Schema | See 'Metadata schema' |
Secondary storage | Secure off-site storage repository housing semi-active and long-term records pending their ultimate destruction or transfer to the State Archives Collection. This arrangement may involve a third party storage supplier. |
Semi active records | Records required infrequently in the conduct of current business. Also referred to as semi-current records |
Senior responsible officer | The Standard on records management requires each public office to have a designated senior responsible officer (SRO) for records management. Each public office should advise State Records NSW of their organisation’s SRO and keep State Records NSW updated with any changes to personnel undertaking this role. |
Sentencing | The process of identifying and classifying records according to a retention and disposal authority and applying the disposal action specified in it. |
Series (Records series) | A group of records which result from the same business or recordkeeping activity, have a common system of control or relate to a particular subject or function, have a similar format, or have another relationship arising out of their creation, receipt and use. |
Source records | Documents or records that have been copied, converted or migrated from one format or system to another. The source records are those that remain following the successful conversion or migration. Source records may be original records or reproductions generated by an earlier copying, conversion or migration process. |
SRO | See senior responsible officer. |
State archive | A State record of enduring value that State Records NSW has control of under the State Records Act. |
State record | Section 3(1) of the State Records Act defines a State record as one made or received by a person: (a) in the course of exercising official functions in a public office, or (b) for a purpose of a public office, or (c) for the use of a public office. |
Storage facilities | Any building, that houses records, including commercial storage facilities, in-house storage facilities and archival storage facilities |
Sustainable file formats | File formats best suited for long-term retention and accessibility. They are:
Their specifications are known and trusted, and support metadata objectives. |
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Temporary records | Records that do not possess archival/enduring value. Temporary State records have been appraised in accordance with authorised retention and disposal authorities. These records are kept for a specific period of time to meet legislative, business or community requirements, and once this time expires the records can be destroyed. |
Thesaurus | Controlled and structured vocabulary showing preferred terms, directing users to preferred terms via synonyms and making clear the relationships of concepts represented by the preferred term. The purpose of a thesaurus is to guide users, including both those indexing the record and those searching for it, to select the same preferred term or combination of preferred terms to represent a given subject. |
Time-expired records | Temporary records which are no longer required to support business and legal requirement and have passed the nominated date for destruction as specified in retention and disposal authorities. |
Transaction | Smallest unit of a work process consisting of an exchange between two or more participants or systems |
Transfer | Involves change of custody, ownership and/or responsibility for records. Transfer of records as State archives is a formal process involving the removal of State records from the control of the public office which created or inherited the records, and passing control and physical custody of those records to Museums of History NSW. Once this has happened, the records become known as State archives. Administrative change prompts the transfer of State records between public offices to follow the responsibility for a function. |
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Unsentenced records | Records which have not been sentenced and consequently their retention requirements are unknown. Unsentenced records cannot be transferred or destroyed, and often cost public offices money over the long term. |
Useability | A characteristic of a record such that it can be located, retrieved, presented and interpreted within a time period that is deemed reasonable by stakeholders. |
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Vital records | Electronic or hard-copy record that is essential for preserving, continuing or reconstructing the operations of an organisation and protecting the rights of an organisation, its employees, its customers and its stakeholders. Also referred as critical records. |
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Work process | A work process is one or more sequences of transactions required to produce an outcome that complies with governing rules. |
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