Group (or unit) members share memories, tacit knowledge, and social cohesion. Members of different groups, even within the same organization, often inhabit different social and language worlds. Once the unit’s information is to be shared with other units within the organisation, that information has to be made understandable for outsiders. This is done by formalizing the information, thereby stripping the information of information that was meant to stay inside the group. Recordkeeping systems are “active creators of categories in the world” and people in these systems “classify away traces that they know to be relevant but which should not be officially recorded