Trish O'Kane and Clare Somerville 'Data in Databases -- it's not what you think'
Channel: Archives New Zealand
Date: 16/04/2012

Recordkeepers, used to a document-centric view of records, may struggle to think of how to apply recordkeeping concepts to data. Talk of "preserving databases" and even "transferring databases" just doesn't cut it in the data world. The picture is often much bigger than individual databases. Databases don't contain records -- we will explain why. We can use databases to create well-formed records that we can preserve. And we can preserve datasets. We can create requirements: for the creation and preservation of records generated from data; for the decommissioning of databases and for the migration of datasets.
This presentation, by experts in both structured data and records management, will address key concepts for recordkeepers about data, databases and data warehouses. We'll also talk about good practice in data management and how we can connect it up to recordkeeping metadata.