Managing Electronic Messages as Records

[Roger Clarke]

I'm cross-posting this to link from cirg-l (an official list within
government), because I think it includes an important net-policy issue  ...
Roger


>Subject: Managing Electronic Messages as Records
>
>Australian Archives has now made the following document available on its =
>web site:
>
>"Managing electronic messages as records" and it can be accessed at :=20
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>http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Issues/EMcontents.HTM
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>"The purpose of this document is to establish a policy and provide =
>guidelines for the management of electronic messages as records within =
>the Commonwealth Government sector.=20
>
>This policy establishes that stored electronic messages derived from =
>Commonwealth Government business transactions are records and outlines =
>how they should be managed. In establishing that electronic messages are =
>records the policy also establishes a requirement to retain electronic =
>messages in recordkeeping systems for as long as they are required by =
>the Commonwealth and the community.

So Deja News was a harbinger of things to come, eh?  No more treating email
like a chat at the coffee-machine or on a park-bench!


>The purpose of the guideline, which follows the policy, is to enable =
>agencies to comply with the Policy on Managing Electronic Messages as =
>Records. The guidelines are designed to complement the policy. "
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>************************************************
>Greg O'Shea
>Assistant Director Electronic Records
>National Office
>Australian Archives
>Canberra
>=20
>P.O. Box 34
>Dickson ACT 2602
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>ph 61 6 2093658
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>fax 61 6 2093931
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>gregos@aa.gov.au
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>http://www.aa.gov.au/
>
>"cogito ergo record"
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>

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