This course is an introduction to the management and long-term
preservation of unstructured content created or maintained
electronically. This course examines the ways in which new
information technologies challenge organizations' capacities to
define, identify, control, manage, and preserve electronic records.
Topics include the nature of electronic records as evidence; reliability
and authenticity in electronic records; electronic records management
policy formulation; business continuity planning; information
security; the role and nature of recordkeeping metadata; strategies,
techniques, and technologies for the long-term preservation of
electronic records; individual electronic recordkeeping behaviors, as
well as industry, national, and international standards relating to
electronic recordkeeping.