TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce an infrastructural approach to metadata modelling and a generalised meta-model for recordkeeping metadata. This meta-model is an attempt to support interoperability between disparate systems, and particularly, between sets of ostensibly incommensurate record documentation.Design/methodology/approach The investigation used a reflective design-science investigation comprising interviews adaptive literature review, creation of conceptual models and the design and instantiation of a proof-of-concept system.Findings The investigation confirms that recordkeeping interoperability between disparate ontologies is achievable through a meta-model approach. In particular, the meta-model carefully defines relationships between entities with specific semantics that enable the development of interoperable domain schemas.Practical implications A meta-model for recordkeeping metadata facilitates the development of recordkeeping systems that possess interoperability-by-design.Social implications Recordkeeping systems that conform to the meta-model can, therefore, transcend the immediate transactional context and support participatory recordkeeping in terms of a plurality of stakeholder world views and agency in records.Originality/value This paper is one of the few reporting design-science approaches to recordkeeping informatics and one that has used a meta-model approach for recordkeeping metadata design. In contrast to most empirically determined metadata schemas, the top-down design approach has produced a schema from a wide variety of ontological sources.
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
SN  - 0956-5698
DO  - 10.1108/RMJ-09-2016-0027
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2016-0027
AU  - Rolan Gregory
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Towards interoperable recordkeeping systems: A meta-model for recordkeeping metadata
T2  - Records Management Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 125
EP  - 148
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -