I started this blog in 2009 to explore how changes in the digital world impacted on records management thinking and practice.
I have worked for thirty years in the field of records and archives, in many different roles including as a practitioner, consultant, policy advisor, trainer, blogger, podcaster and cartoonist.
In 2024 I was awarded a PhD by Loughborough University for my thesis ‘The science of recordkeeping systems – a realist perspective’.
Since 2021 I have been working in UK government as a senior policy advisor in knowledge and information management. I am located in the Government Digital Service.
All views on this blog are my own.
Publications
Lappin, James (2024). The science of recordkeeping systems – a realist perspective. Loughborough University. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.26174/thesis.lboro.25055396.v1
Lappin, J., Jackson, T., Matthews, G. et al. Rival records management models in an era of partial automation. Arch Sci 21, 243–266 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09354-9
Lappin, J., Jackson, T., Matthews, G. and Onojeharho, E. (2019), “The defensible deletion of government email”, Records Management Journal, Vol. 29 No. 1/2, pp. 42-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/RMJ-09-2018-0036
Lappin, J. (2010), “What will be the next records management orthodoxy?”, Records Management Journal, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/09565691011095283
Thinking Records 
Hi James
Do you realise you have a typo in the second sentence of your blog’s “About” page; (Thinking Reocrds)!
Regards
Frank
Thanks for pointing this out Frank, I’ve corrected this now. I remember your training courses from the old PRO days, I think you were the person who first introduced me to the records life cycle!
Oh dear. What did I set in motion? Thanks for the link to the Dorset Experience paper; very interesting.