Rising to the level of a record? Some thoughts on records and documents

Records Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-27

  Yeo, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Data analysis; Information management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953279782     PISSN: 09565698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09565691111125071     Document Type: Article

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