Records Mgmt & Archiving

Teilübernahme der Sispace AG, dem führenden Unternehmen für Records-Management in der Schweiz

s. Pressemitteilung

Computerworld CH

The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1.

ISO press release

digital preservation europe has released a new issue of its digest

european quarterly preservation digest

LIFE (Life Cycle Information for E-Literature) is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and the British Library.

Summary of the LIFE2 conference:
http://www.life.ac.uk/blog/

The presentation files from the LIFE2 Conference are now available on the
Conference Page

Especially interesting is the keynote (Paul Courant) about economics and cost models of digital preservation:
http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/9051

Archivierung und Bereitstellung elektronischer Dokumente wird vereinfacht

Bonn , 17. Juli 2008 -

s. Veröffentlichung

Europäische Studie nimmt Status von Archivierungsdienstleistungen und Anforderungen an externe Anbieter unter die Lupe.

Go to article (German)

CIO Magazin - Artikel

Deutsche Unternehmen misstrauen der externen Archivierung von Unterlagen. Ihre Budgets für die Datenspeicherung liegen deutlich höher als in anderen Ländern.


s. auch

A variety of functional specifications for records management software has been developed in the international community. In 2006, the International Council on Archives agreed to develop a harmonised, generic suite of recordkeeping functional requirements for software products based on existing jurisdiction-specific specifications, and to do so in a manner consistent with the International Standard on Records Management, ISO 15489. It is hoped that this suite of guidelines and functional requirements will assist jurisdictions that are developing, or looking to adopt, their own functional specifications, as well as inform the update and revision of previously existing standards.

Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Eletronic Office Environments:

Module 1: Overview and Statement of Principles

Module 2: Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems

The uncertain future of saving the past.

Go to PDF

Over 1000 e-discovery cases based on US jurisdiction are stored in DB by K&L Gates.
You may execute a combined search by
- Rules (e.g. limitations)
- Context (e.g. motion for sanctions)
- Particular issues (e.g. records retention policy)
and even keywords.

Very nice!

see article from Blog

Go to database:
https://extranet1.klgates.com/ediscovery/

The SDSC has executed a pilot project for the Library of Congress.

Between May 2006 and October 2007, the Library of Congress (LC) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) conducted data-transfer and storage tests.
At the heart of the project was the issue of trust, specifically how the LC could
trust SDSC to reliably store several terabytes of the LC’s data. By what means
could SDSC prove to the LC that the data was intact, preserved, and well-cared for? What tests could the LC devise, and what metrics could SDSC produce, to guarantee the integrity of their remotely stored data?

Go to:
SDSC-Project (pdf, 1,399 KB)

Das Repräsentatenhaus stimmte dem neuen Electronic Message Preservation Act zu. Die Zustimmung des Senats ist noch offen.

s. Artikel

In US-amerikanischen Bundesbehörden wird der E-Mailverkehr unzureichend und nicht sicher archiviert.

s. Heise online

Die Euro08, beziehungsweise all die vielen Schweizer Websites, die darüber berichtet haben, sind Teil eines spannenden Projektes der Schweizer Landesbibliothek

s. Artikel

PETITION POUR SAUVER LES ARCHIVES
adressée à Nicolas Sarkozy, Président de la République.
(des postes d'archivistes sont en danger)

- Pour le maintien de la Direction des Archives de France comme direction d’administration centrale de plein exercice

- Pour le maintien de l’organisation actuelle du réseau des services publics d’archives

- Pour le maintien et le renforcement de son personnel statutaire

Voir document et agir:
Sauver-les-archives-petition (doc, 34 KB)

Interesanter Artikel in der FAZ v. Dienstag 1. Juli

Die Tücke digitaler Technik ist ihre begrenzte Haltbarkeit.

FAZ-Online

Das neue Toolkit für risikobasierte Audits von digitalen Ablagen / Archiven
kann erworben werden durch Registrierung auf der neuen Website:

Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)

http://www.repositoryaudit.eu

(since 9th April 2008)

Vortrag von A. McHugh (HATII, Glasgow) anlässlich der Archiving 2008 Konferenz in Bern (24.-27.6.08)

Bringing Self Assessment Home: Repository Profiling & Key Lines of Enquiry Within DRAMBORA
Drambora (ppt, 406 KB)

"Long-term preservation of digitally represented information (abbreviated LDP below) has been
discussed for over a decade in articles by librarians, archivists, and information scientists, an
informal group sometimes called the digital preservation community (DPC). This literature is
mostly disjoint from that of computer science, software engineering, and information technology
industry. From the perspective of an engineer accustomed to the pace of I/T research and
development, progress reported in the DPC literature is surprisingly slow."

We need more common activities. This means that archivists have to develop more skills in
IT architecture, engineering etc.

Read the excellent report on Economics and engineering for preserving digital content

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