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The RCM is an abstract conceptual model that helps to understand and explore recordkeeping activities (as interaction) in relation to multiple contexts over space and time ([[spacetime]]).<ref name="McK2001">{{cite journal |last=McKemmish |first=S. |year=2001 |title=Placing records continuum theory and practice |journal=Archival Science |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=333–359 |url=http://doi.org/10.1007/BF02438901 }}}</ref> Recordkeeping activities encompass a time period prior to the creation of records by recognizing recordkeeping requirements in policies, systems, organizations, processes, laws, and social mandates that impact what is created and how it is managed over spacetime. In a continuum, recordkeeping processes, such as adding [[metadata]], ''fix'' documents, to enable them to be managed as contextual evidence.<ref name="McK2001" /> Records deemed as having continuing value are retained and managed as an archive. The implication of an RCM approach to archiving is that systems and processes establish records as both current and archival at the point of creation.<ref name="curtin">{{cite web|url=http://john.curtin.edu.au/society/australia/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-10-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013123845/http://john.curtin.edu.au/society/australia/ |archivedate=2014-10-13 |df= }}</ref>
The RCM can be visualized as a series of 4 concentric rings, or dimensions; ''Document Creation'', ''Records Capture'', ''The Organization of Corporate and Personal Memory'' and ''The Pluralization of Collective Memory'' intersecting with a set of crossed axes; transactionality, evidentiality, recordkeeping and identity.<ref name="upward1" /> Each axis is labelled with a description of the activity or interaction that occurs at that intersection. ''Create'', ''Capture'', ''Organize'' and ''Pluralize'', as the dimensions are referred to in short, represent recordkeeping activities that occur within spacetime. Activities that occur in these dimensions across the axes are explained in the table below:<ref name="elis"/><ref>The information in the table is drawn from {{cite book |last=Upward |first=F. |year=2005 |chapter=The Records Continuum |editor1-first=S. |editor1-last=McKemmish |editor2-first=M. |editor2-last=Piggott |editor3-first=B. |editor3-last=Reed |editor4-first=F. |editor4-last=Upward |title=Archives: Recordkeeping in Society |pages=197–222 |place=Wagga Wagga, NSW |publisher=Centre for Information Studies }}</ref>
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