PRM

PRM stands for Personal Records Management. When i was in my primary school days, I remembered my father used to have a old paper file that recorded all our identification number on the front cover of the file. The file also contains all our birth certificates, educational qualifications, pass ports. Once my sisters were married, my father will then hand over the documents to her so that she can start managing on her own. I also remembered when i had to apply for my first scholarship, I had to photocopy my certificates and to stamp them as "Certified true copies" before handing them to the Scholarship team. When I started my official KM journey, I came across the Registry which is a central holding area where all official records are filed. They were centrally managed once and then due to reorganisation they were decentralised. We then looked at how to transform the hardcopy registry to a digital registry and I like to draw this analogy, where we individually can also transform our personal records management. One way will be to scan all our certificates, qualification, testimonials to digital pdfs which is OCRed (Optical character recogniable so as to allow the search engine to index them for future retrieval. These scanned pdfs can then be filed electronically into our hard drives.