Digital Record-Keeping

Course aim

To ensure students are able to develop tools and practices that enable an organisation to manage both physical and electronic records; and to assist students understand recordkeeping concepts and their application to digitally born and digitised records.

Course content

The learning process will consist of understanding electronic recordkeeping principles and concepts and applying them in a practical concept; understanding EDRMS software tools and their use; configuring business rules to manage electronic records over time; understanding and applying metadata standards in a practical context; aggregating multi-media objects for access and archival purposes; understanding emerging issues; Ownership, risks and administrative issues associated with recordkeeping; Accessibility of physical and digital records; Role of recordkeeping processes, practice and systems, including the roles and responsibilities of the information manager, International and transborder information transfer ;

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	2 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External (Online activities)	2 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Assignment 3

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.