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... ... The bad thing about records management is that almost everybody thinks they can un-derstand it. The problem is that since suddenly (in evolutionary terms) some deviant went and built the printing press. After that, almost no-body had control. There was only success in archiving some paper documents for reasons unknown. Since we’re digitized and we’re switching batteries in our laptop computers while streaking through the sky in shiny metal objects in which soft drinks and peanuts are served, nobody knows how to handle the huge amount of digital and digitized documents.

'If men define their situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

Zoals uit menig onderzoek van de afgelopen jaren blijkt, mankeert er nogal wat aan de perceptie van met name de Haagse beleidsmakers van dat deel van de samenleving waarvoor zij verantwoordelijk zijn en van de gevolgen daarvoor van het door hen gevoerde beleid. Door hun normatieve visie als grondslag te nemen voor de selectiemethodiek wordt het collectief geheugen van een natie op een zeer bepaalde wijze vervormd.

Handeling = 'The world according to the official'

Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals deposited in our public offices. The late war has done the work of centuries in this business. The lost cannot be recovered, but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing’s over when it’s over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events. History is a construct, she tells her students. Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary.

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Much of today's Web will have disappeared by tomorrow.

The clock is running.
Make the most of today.
Time waits for no man.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it is called the present.

Niets is toevallig, en wat toeval lijkt is alleen een onbekend feit waarvan de uitleg de gelegenheid kan bieden een of meer minder belangrijke ontdekkingen te doen.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is no relationship between theory and practice.