Records are kept at all levels of the organisation, from clerical to executive.

Record may be one and at the same time accessed for current organization and archival purposes especially it is in electronic form.

The management of records is not time-based or sequential and the actions on the records are seamless and maybe simultaneous.

In the most basic version of the continuum concept, three "biological" ages are thought to be analogous to the three periods of a record's life