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Employee personnel records retention scheduling
(PDF, 0.10 Mb)

This guidance covers the information held on individual civil servants, commonly called P Files.

Subjects: employee records, retention, what to keep

Guidance principles on the auto-deletion of email

Subjects: email, information management, managing email, records management

Managing digital continuity
(PDF, 0.31 Mb)

This guidance provides a high level guide to the steps you can take to manage digital continuity. It assumes a basic understanding of what digital continuity means.

Subjects: business change, business value, change management, data migration and recovery, data reduction and storage, digital continuity, digital information management, electronic records management, information assets, information assurance, risk

Managing digital records without an electronic records management system
(PDF, 0.66 Mb)

The purpose of this guidance is to demonstrate how an organisation can improve the management of records within their file systems.

Subjects: digital information management, electronic records management

Migrating information between EDRMS
(PDF, 0.20 Mb)

This guidance will help you prepare for migrating information between Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS) and focuses on maintaining the continuity of your information.

Subjects: data migration and recovery, digital continuity, digital information management, electronic records management

Records management code self-assessment tool
(XLS, 4.15 Mb)

Self assessment questionnaire for compliance to the revised records management code issued under section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Subjects: assessment, codes of practice, electronic records management, records management, section 46 code, self-assessment, workbook

Review of records management in Sharepoint 2010 – Implications and Issues
(PDF, 0.09 Mb)

The following paper looks at specific issues with the implementation of records management in SharePoint 2010. This paper is not intended to be a tool to inform decisions on whether or not to implement SharePoint.

Subjects: electronic records management, records management

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Employee personnel records retention scheduling (PDF, 0.10 Mb)

Guidance principles on the auto-deletion of email

Managing digital continuity (PDF, 0.31 Mb)

Managing digital records without an electronic records management system (PDF, 0.66 Mb)

Migrating information between EDRMS (PDF, 0.20 Mb)

Records management code self-assessment tool (XLS, 4.15 Mb)

Review of records management in Sharepoint 2010 – Implications and Issues (PDF, 0.09 Mb)