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records management

/ˈrɛkɔːrdz ˈmænɪdʒmənt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A lifecycle with a thorough creation stage, a generous storage stage, and a disposition stage observed mainly in theory.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The discipline of controlling records through their lifecycle, from creation to authorized disposition.

Evidence

See also

data dispositionThe least-rehearsed verb in the data lifecycle, and the first one a regulator asks you to demonstrate.
data retention scheduleA document specifying when data will be deleted, ratified by an organization that has never deleted anything.
legal holdThe one instruction that the retention schedule, otherwise inert, has always obeyed instantly.
regulatory reportingThe one report whose definition of 'customer' is finally agreed, because the penalty for drift is statutory.