Records Mgmt & Archiving

NARA has published a document about the handling of Web 2.0 formats. Do we create records out there? or just documents which become discoverable in case of a litigation ...

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/web2.0-use.pdf

A study from the University of Albany:

In response to growing interest in and concerns about social media in the public sector among government professionals, CTG launched a project aimed at exploring some of the issues and benefits connected with social media tools. This report summarizes results from two workshops held with government professionals from New York State (NYS) as part of this project. The workshops were designed to collect information on the value NYS agencies seek in their current or future use of social media, as well as their most pressing questions and concerns regarding that use. The report summarizes the results from workshops, with full results provided in three apendices, and concludes with a section outlining the next steps in the project.

go to:
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/publications/reports/social_media

OpenText has released its new Suite (en)

and german

other story

Records Managers have to ask what's really the benefit of all this collaboration stuff around ECM solutions?

maybe this: http://jhagmann.twoday.net/stories/5772052/

Steve Bailey (Univ. Northumbria) has published an interesting book:
Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World

read the post on his Blog:
One interesting idea is to create “a folksonomy service that can penetrate deep content, at an individual content level, across multiple service providers".
This would improve access to information and definitely add value to information as an asset.

http://rmfuturewatch.blogspot.com/2009/06/step-closer-to-making-records.html

See also this post:
http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=293

Some slides from an event with OpenText:

Go to Blog post

Does Web 2.0 help to bring order into the chaos, reduce entropy in the organization of information within an enterprise, and increase transparency?

Mr Kampffmeyer presented some interesting thoughts about these questions at the closing day of the DLM Forum in Toulouse.

see blog

An interesting approach would be that Web 2.0 tools are used as a meta layer built on a robust EDRMS infrastructure where "everything is in its place" (Moreq2).
Web 2.0 cannot replace solid content mgmt systems.

the discussion reminds of the RM manifesto published recently within the community.
see: http://jhagmann.twoday.net/stories/5248317/