We are only a decade into the 21st century, but it is already apparent that there will be something different about the records produced by this century, as compared to those of any other time period.  It is not just that they are going to be in electronic rather than hard-copy form, it is more fundamental than that. Records in previous centuries The United Kingdom’s National Archives in Kew houses an unbroken eight hundred years worth of records. In every previous one of those 8 centuries of English/British record keeping, there has been a common method of keeping records.  A ubiquitous method that was used for record keeping by any and every organisation. In the 13 and 14th centuries the ubiquitous method of record…