National Technical Committee on Standardization TC BY 28 “Records Management” held a meeting

On 29 November 2011, the National Technical Committee on Standardization TC BY 28 “Records Management” held a meeting in Minsk.

The key issue on the agenda was the discussion of the draft of the Preliminary State Standard of the Republic of Belarus STB P ISO 15489-1 “Information and Documentation – Records Management. Part 1. General Requirements”.

The main focus at the meeting was terminological contradictions connected with the translation into Russian of Standard ISO 15489-1:2001 being passed in the Republic of Belarus. The meeting participants had a vibrant discussion about the translation into Russian of such English terms as “record” and “document”. In view of the necessity to define the translation of a number of other English terms (such as “procedure”, “control”, “retention”) the voting on the final draft of STB P ISO 15489-1 was transferred to the next meeting of the technical committee.

The meeting supported the proposal by the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) to join the ISO technical committees on standardization in the field of documentation at international level and to submit the required documents to the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus (Gosstandart).

The meeting participants approved the plan of standardization in records management for 2012 and discussed the report of the technical committee for 2011.