Records Mgmt & Archiving

This one-day workshop provided a useful overview of legal considerations for non-legal professionals who work with data. The day comprised talks by experts in the following areas:
Intellectual property rights and licensing
Data protection, freedom of information and privacy
Data as evidence

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/legal-env-dig-cur-2007/

To learn more about the intricacies of e-discovery Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell have collected links to portals, resources, blogs, cases and more on this topic.

http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/slc10061.shtml

source:
http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2007/11/bob_ambrogi_on_ediscovery_blogs.html


E-discovery will come to Europe sooner or later despite of the fact that our culture is less litigious.

Minutes from public meetings about the ERA project (NARA):
(April 2007)

There are some issues however ... e.g. with ingest and timelines etc.

and we learn that archivists have no power: as usual

"Dr Thibodeau – The records coming to NARA are available immediately. But archivists do not have enforcement power."

check on your own what are the problems of developing the largest (or most costly) archive for digital objects history has ever seen.

http://archives.gov/era/pdf/acera-minutes-040407-draft.pdf

http://archives.gov/era/pdf/acera-minutes-040507-draft.pdf