Records Mgmt & Archiving

Metadata is entering the compliance argumentation ...

The court began its analysis by stating: “Metadata has been defined as ‘information about a particular data set which describes how, when, and by whom it was collected, created, accessed, or modified and how it was formatted.’" (Citing Williams v. Sprint/United Mgmt. Co., 230 F.R.D. 640, 646 (D. Kan. 2005) (quoting Appendix F to The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practice Guidelines and Commentary for Managing Information & Records in the Electronic Age ).)

see:
http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2007/11/articles/case-summaries/sanctions-not-warranted-for-failure-to-produce-esi-in-native-format-with-intact-metadata/

The Digital Continuity project is led by The UK National Archives.

Did you know?
An estimated 10 per cent of the Canadian Government´s electronic records are already no longer readable
A recent study by the National Science Foundation in the US found that the average cost of recreating just 20 MB of data was $64,000
In May 2006, global financial services firm Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $15 million to settle civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it failed to produce tens of thousands of emails dating back to December 2000

see:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/electronicrecords/digitalcontinuity/default.htm