Key Roles
TNA claims it is "at the heart of information policy - setting standards and supporting innovation in information and records management across the UK, and providing a practical framework of best practice for opening up and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. This work helps inform today's decisions and ensure that they become tomorrow's permanent record." It has a number of key roles in information policy:
- Policy — advising government on information practice and policy, on issues from record creation through to its reuse
- Selection — selecting which documents to store
- Preservation — ensuring the documents remain in as good a condition as possible
- Access — providing the public with the opportunity to view the documents
- Advice — advising the public and other archives and archivists around the world on how to care for documents
- Intellectual property management — TNA (via OPSI and HMSO) manages crown copyright for the UK
- Regulation — ensuring that other public sector organisations adhere to both the public records act and the PSI reuse regulations.
Read more about this topic: The National Archives (United Kingdom)
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