Answer to Question #206411 in English for Angel

Question

How does the core functions of information professional relate to the information lifecycle?

Answer 1

The core functions of information professional include collecting, recording, organising, storing, preserving, retrieving, and disseminating printed or digital information. Librarians, archivists, information managers, information systems specialists, information scientists, records managers,and information consultants as examples of information professionals provide information service to clients.

The term "Information lifecycle" refers to the way that information is produced and distributed, and how it changes over time. Usually, it's used to describe the progression of media coverage relating to a particular newsworthy event or topic.

Relationship between information professional and information lifecycle.

Information professional helps in identifying those documents/assets that need to be monitored for regulatory compliance purposes.

Information professional under Information Lifecycle Management helps you to keep track of your content, keep it active till you decide to dispose it and help in managing data storage to avoid storage wastage.

Information professionals help entities manage roles, responsibilities and obligations throughout the existence of any particular bit of data. Data privacy policies and procedures likely need to be updated and meshed with other pertinent policies. Because this merged data will need to be mapped and classified in information lifecycle, information professionals are, therefore, needed.