Records Mgmt & Archiving

Dennis Kennedy White Paper

Der Autor plädiert für eine bessere Zusammenarbeit zwischen IT und
Juristen.

see full document:
Kennedy-ILM (pdf, 457 KB)

In theory, Microsoft could bring records management to the masses. In practice, it won't be easy, and I suspect many a SharePoint administrator will simply turn off RM services. Microsoft itself has a lot to learn here, but also, potentially, a lot to teach. Now you can track their thinking through a new blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/recman/archive/2006/04/10/572701.aspx

where SharePoint RM developers and internal Microsoft records managers promise to post.

Thursday, April 13th, the U.S. Supreme Court approved, without comment or dissent, the entire package of proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the discovery of "electronically stored information." Absent any action by Congress, these rules will go into effect on December 1, 2006.

The new rules will have a significant impact on the management of electronic records. All records management professionals should have a clear understanding of what they need to do to have their ERM program synchronized with these amendments.

see further information:
http://infogovernance.blogspot.com/2006/04/legal-technology-supreme-court.html

http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_38412

Prepared by the Digital Presevation Coalition (DPC)

DPC bietet einen interaktiven Bewertungsrahmen für die Selektion von
digitalen Unterlagen für die Langzeitarchivierung.

http://www.dpconline.org/docs/handbook/DecTree.pdf

Clearly defined selection policies will enable cost savings in terms of time taken to establish whether or not to select and also potential costs further down the track of needing to re-assess digital resources which are either in danger of becoming or are no longer accessible.

This Decision Tree may be used as a tool to construct or test such a policy for your organisation. The decision process represented in the tree should be addressed by your policy for selection of digital materials for the long-term.

Assuming a digital resource is being considered for selection, the questions and choices reflected here will assist the ultimate decision to accept or reject long-term preservation responsibility. The flow of the questions represents a logical order of evaluation. If the response to early questions is not favourable there is little point in accepting preservation responsibility for the resource or continuing it’s evaluation, for example if the content does not meet your collection policy then the response to questions on the technical format will be irrelevant. The structure of the tree aims to reflect this process.

Remember...

When a policy is in place, to be effective it must also be:

* Endorsed by senior management
* Actively promulgated throughout the organisation
* Reviewed at regular intervals
* Allocated appropriate resource commitment