Archive Management News & Articles

The question of creating access to information is not a new one for archivists, but how some archivists are answering that question when handling large quantities of hard copy data in a digital environment is.

Working with many of the techniques of Digital Forensics, Digital Preservationists are moving to the forefront in many institutions, bridging the gap between archivists, technologists and records managers.

While archiving web pages may not spring to mind as one of the duties of an archivist, organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of keeping records of websites and social media sites to provide snapshots of their public face and context for other assets.

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2012 annual meeting, Beyond Borders, began Monday, August 6 in San Diego with strong pre-conference sessions. I attended Digital Forensics for Archivists (DFA), a course focusing on specific tools and services that archivists need to use for their work with digital archives.

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting continued the second day with a focus on interdisciplinary teams and long-term preservation planning.

The 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference offered insights on new tools that address archival challenges. Here's a look.

The 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) kicked off its three-day conference in the organization’s “Sweet Home”-town of Chicago.

We recently introduced you to Smarsh, an organization that provides hosted solutions for archiving electronic communications, including various social media platforms. This week Smarsh and LIMRA formed a strategic partnership designed to help its members meet a variety of needs associated with electronic message archiving and compliance.

The annual joint meeting of the Council of State Archives (CoSA), the National Association of Government Records Administrators and Archives (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) continued in DC today as a fortunate audience previewed the interface of the Distributed Custodial Archival Preservation Environments (DCAPE) Project.

With the expected explosion of email alone in the next 6 years, there needs to be a better way to perform discovery than keyword searches. The answer may be in visual analysis.

In an era in which the top 10 metropolitan cities lack the budget to create disaster recovery plans for its email systems, storage in the cloud is tempting.

The Annual Joint Meeting of the Council of State Archives (CoSA), the National Association of Government Records Administrators and Archives (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) kicked off this morning.

Attendance and visibility may have been reduced the first day, but clarity of vision was not. The first breakout session focused on the effectiveness of structured data.

Since EMC launched its SourceOne family, a suite of archiving, e-Discovery and compliance solutions, in April 2009, the family has been constantly growing. First they focused on email management. Now, they’re introducing two new members, SourceOne File Intelligence and File Systems. Both products are focused on addressing unstructured content.

Synaptris, a leader in the in the Lotus Notes information management market, has announced the general availability of FewClix, an email productivity add-on for Lotus Notes that helps users perform many email tasks faster and more effectively, for enterprise deployment.