Records Management News & Articles

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.

It’s time for a reality check on the information and records management profession.

Forget Obamacare. There's something big happening in the healthcare industry, and it seems there is a silver lining to this cloud. Studies say that security, regulatory and privacy concerns might get in the way of cloud computing in the healthcare industry, although this sector is set to grow in the medium term. Cloud computing in healthcare is projected to grow to US$ 5.4 billion by 2017.

Dell has announced it is buying Quest Software, a diverse IT infrastructure company, for US$ 2.4 billion.

In 2012, the federal government is getting into the social business game.

On your smartphone, you open an electronic expense report that is already pre-populated with your basic information. Then you photograph your receipts, which are automatically attached. That vision of reimbursement nirvana is one of the ways that iDatix foresees how its new mobile app will be used.

This is the fourth article in this series “What Is This SharePoint Thing All About Anyway?” In this article we are going to be looking at the concept of SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) offered its “Managing Electronic Records in Archives & Special Collections” workshop in Seattle May 10-11th in support of its Digital Archives Specialist [DAS] certificate.

Six months ago I bought a copy of a 2009 textbook entitled, “Artificial Intelligence for Games” by Millington and Funge. It sat on the bottom of a tall column of information management books, patiently waiting to be singled out (for reading rather than dusting). Last week, I picked it up and promptly dropped it. It flipped open to page 382.

Createasphere is accepting submissions for its 3rd Annual DAMMY Awards, we're hosting the April DAM Tweet Jam tomorrow, we look at takeaways from OpenText Content Day and how Gannett plans to improve profits by leveraging its digital assets and North Plains acquires Xinet.

Chances are, when you’re talking about managing information, the word "big" works itself into the conversation. Big data is everywhere and it’s not going anywhere. No matter how hard you try, you can’t ignore it, so you might as well stare down the barrel of the big data gun and make the most of it.

Jesse James Garrett quietly published the second edition of his requisite “The Elements of User Experience” last year, almost ten years after the first volume issued. Reading his book in light of today’s SharePoint governance plans is a fascinating hindsight exercise.

Last weekend, The New York Times ran an interesting article about big data’s impact on the world. If you didn’t already think big data was cool, you will after reading this article. We also look at recent product updates and the important role metadata plays in the government.

Product updates, a look at moving digital assets, how Brunswick Bowling and Billiards leverages Widen's DAM solution and how 50 Kaliber Films manages 20,000 video files.