Intellectual control

This chapter explores intellectual control over records, focusing on metadata, records management and arrangement and description as strategies to exercise siuch control. In particular, Section 1 identifies and explores some assumptions underlying traditional approaches to arrangement and description alogn with the opportunities to use technology to enhance existing practice. Section 2 presents some considerations on metadata and authenticity based on the InterPARES 2 Benchmark and Baseline Requirements. Section 3 focuses on usability and human-computer interaction in electronic records managment systems