...Abdul Moid; M. Masoom Raza; Mohammad Javed; Keshwar Jahan Purpose Records are current documents containing crucial personal, legal, financial and medical information, while archives house non-current documents with the same details. This study specifically aims to measure existing research...

... information to serve as records that are linked to their business context using metadata. Once data has been processed, the contents need to be described and organised in a way to facilitate its access through metadata (Borgman, 2003 , p. 68). Enterprises should decide that the sources of their data...

...Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma Purpose This paper aims to assess the functions of the National Archives of South Africa regarding universities’ records and archives by comparing the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Venda’s (Univen) implementation of the National...

... of records (Kamatula et al., 2013). The study aimed to assess Venda indigenous archives incorporation into the Limpopo Provincial Archives with a view of archives decolonisation. The end of the apartheid in 1994 brought a discussion about the new role of archives (Namhila, 2015...

...Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which the Mpumalanga Provincial Archives (MPA) complies with the Mpumalanga Archives Act, 2008 legislative/policy provisions of archives building, capacity building and electronic records management...

.... Originality/value – The study has advanced the understanding of archival science as an informational discipline which has to contribute a great part in the integrated field of information. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Greece Archives Survey Records Information studies Archival...