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This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find. Silences range from details of individuals' lives to records of state oppression or of intelligence operations. The book brings together ideas from a wide range of fields, from contemporary history through family history research to Shakespearian studies. It describes why there are these silences, what the impact of them is, how researchers have responded to them and what the silence of the archive means for researchers in the digital age.

Archivistics --- Archives --- Appraisal of archival materials. --- Records retention. --- Documents d'archives --- Calendrier de conservation (Archives) --- Acquisitions --- Evaluation --- 930.25 --- 930.25 Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek --- Record retention schedules --- Retaining records --- Retention of records --- Records --- Appraisal of archival materials --- Acquisitions (Archives) --- Archive acquisitions --- Archival appraisal --- Evaluation of archival materials --- Selection of archival materials --- Archival materials --- Records retention --- Acquisitions. --- Management

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Collaborative decision making processes are a form of communication inside organizations. Their functioning can teach lessons for the design of electronic office systems. Those processes are open ended and therefore decide themselves on their form. Like oral deliberations which cannot be modelled in advance any open ended communication process needs means for common control over the further advancement and the ending of the process. The history of German administrative practice and its special methods of using disposals for the control of common processes shows the creation of records as based on communication needs generated by the intention of joint actions. For electronic decision making processes the purposes remain the same, but the means have to follow the effects of electronic communication on messages. The book is a reworked English version of a thesis for the official qualification for university professorship accepted by the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Germany.

Decision making. --- Records --- Records retention. --- Knowledge management. --- Electronic records. --- Public administration --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Computer-based records --- Digital records --- Digitized records --- Documents in machine-readable form --- Machine-readable records --- Disposition of records --- Records management --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Management of knowledge assets --- Record retention schedules --- Retaining records --- Retention of records --- Management. --- History --- Decision making --- Social sciences. --- Information technology. --- Business --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Social Sciences. --- Social Sciences, general. --- IT in Business. --- Computer Graphics. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Data processing. --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Digital techniques --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Appraisal of archival materials --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Business—Data processing.