The perceived usefulness of standards and good practice guidelines (S&GPG) for records professionals is often seen as ambiguous. Many professionals find the abundance of options overwhelming and confusing. Even after selecting seemingly suitable S&GPG, their direct benefits may not always be evident and can potentially restrict professional autonomy in certain situations. This article explores various approaches employed by records professionals to understand the complexity of S&GPG, such as simple listing or ontological representation. However, each approach has its own set of constraints. The article proposes an initial meta-framework that draws from insights of successful frameworks to provide preliminary categories. The purpose of this conceptual proposal is to assist records professionals understand the connections between S&GPG.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are increasingly being used for the management of business processes and to integrate tasks within institutions in real time. While managing and integrating processes, ERP systems generate and are expected to manage enormous amounts of data and information that should be managed in trustworthy manner. This article draws from a multi-year ERP implementation project by the United Nations to highlight some recordkeeping challenges.

Modern institutions operate hundreds of business systems or applications to support their institutional activities. Among the key players or actors within any institution are records professionals, whose mandate is the management of records/archives or potential records/archives generated by these hundreds of business systems or applications. Records professionals need to make sense of the vast array of software applications and technological infrastructure, as well as how they relate to one another in supporting the institution's functions and activities. Unfortunately, there is often misalignment between various institutional actors, including business actors, information technology (IT) actors, and records professionals. Enterprise architecture (EA) proponents see it as a promising concept to address this fundamental issue. This article draws from a research study exploring the utility of EA frameworks for records professionals.

Modern institutions invest large amounts of resources to build technology platforms and business applications to support organizational activities which will fulfil their institutional mandate. Enterprise architecture (EA) has emerged as an approach to improve the alignment between the organization's business and their technology platforms. This article is drawn from a research project investigating the utility of EA for records and archives specialists.