Records Mgmt & Archiving

Legal Frameworks and Technological Protection of Digital Content: Moving Forward Towards a Best Practice Model

URS GASSER
Harvard University - Berkman Center for Internet & Society; University of St. Gallen June 2006

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/2006/06/20/new-study-on-technological-protection-measures/

Issue no. 8 of the nestor newsletter is now available at the nestor website:
http://nestor.sub.uni-goettingen.de/newsletter/index.php?lang=en

Selection of topics:
- In 2005 and 2006, nestor has commissioned seven studies on digital preservation
topics. The texts are in German but comprehensive summaries are now available in

English at:
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&page_id=18
- nestor survey
- nestor - further training
- “Digital long-term preservation on microfilm” by Roland Dreyer

- Press release: Integration of PADI metadata in the nestor information database
www.langzeitarchivierung.de/downloads/texte/presse_2006_04_06_e.pdf

Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes

March 2006
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub137/pub137.pdf

E-mails have announced that the article -- "The Digital Black Hole" by Jonas Palm -- is now online. Jonas Palm is Director, Head of the Preservation Department of the National Archives of Sweden.

The article presents an analysis of costs for digitizing and long-term storage at the Riksarkivet (National Archives, RA) in Stockholm, Sweden. This example includes forecasts of cost development for the next few years which may help other institutions in analyzing their own costs and budgeting for long-term storage.

http://www.tape-online.net/docs/Palm_Black_Hole.pdf

The latest issue of D-Lib magazine contains an article on digital preservation. James Currall and Peter McKinney write in the introduction: (my emphasis)

Most work that has described 'sustainable' digital preservation has assumed that the organisation in question will only ask, 'how much?' not, 'why?' The 'why' is the hardest question to answer, particularly when the objects being described are digital and the values derived from them are for the most part intangible. Decision-makers need to have very good reasons to divert resources from primary activities to digital preservation practices, and being able to answer 'why' is more than a matter of saying: 'because it is important'.

The idea is more than just some things aren't worth preserving (even if they are digital), but that the value of the assets will change over time. Some assets may not be worth preserving forever. This is an interesting article. Well written and with good graphs.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/mckinney/04mckinney.html

Dennis Kennedy White Paper

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

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

Schon seit längerer Zeit verfolgen Records Manager einen rein prozessorientierten
bzw. funktionalen Approach für die Entwicklung von Taxonomien, die File Pläne und
Records Schedules unterstützen, weil die Dynamik der Organisation nicht mehr
sinnvoll abgebildet werden kann.
Jeff Morelli aus UK hat dazu ein paar gute Papers gemacht, die vieles auf den Punkt
bringen.
In der Regel herrscht heute in den Firmen noch ein Mischansatz, der die Namen der
Organisationsbezeichnungen noch einbezieht. Längerfristig sollte man sich indessen
von dieser Provenienztradition lösen, die für dynamische Prozessveränderungen
wie sie in der Privatwirtschaft vorherrschen nicht geeignet ist.


check: http://www.jmcl.net/ -> Rubrik Records Mgmt

Relevant published papers:
Business Classification Schemes: Issues and Options
As published in Issue 124 February 2005 of the Records Management Society
Bulletin

Artikel aus der ersten Nummer von Arbido Revue
(Autor: J. Hagmann)

Full text:
Memopolitik (pdf, 81 KB)

s. auch Arbido online: http://www.arbido.ch/de/

Establishing a relationship with IT managers and learning about the
basics of system technology will help the records manager lead the way in
directing efforts to retain important data and shape policies and procedures

by: Laurie L. Gingrich, CRM, and Brian D. Morris, CPA
in: Informaton Mgmt Journal , March/April 2006

Fulltext see: Gingrich (pdf, 755 KB)

see full document:
Mind-the-gap- (zip, 565 KB)