n.the initial purpose for which a record was createdNewsome 1939b, 218Public archives, created by administrators in the discharge of their official duties, are at first of primary use and importance as administrative or business records essential to the conduct of the public office.Walker 1989, 20The impact of records management on archival theory and practice has been revolutionary. As with so much of modern history, threat and promise of technological change has forced a fundamental reexamination of assumptions and an expanding consciousness of the organic and symbiotic relationship between the primary and secondary uses of documentation.Hedstrom 1993, 432Likewise, rather than concentrate on appraisal per se, the proposed curriculum would teach archivists how the automation of recordkeeping changes the primary and secondary uses of records and alters users’ expectations and requirements.Xie 2011, 580As concluded by the InterPARES project, preservation of digital records demands managerial care at all stages during the records’ existence: creation, primary use (including maintenance), disposition (i.e., either transfer to a designated custodian or destruction), and secondary use, contrary to traditional preservation strategies, which only takes place after records are transferred to an archives or they acquire a permanent status.
