ReadyResources

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:55:19 +0000

The most recent issue of the international Records Management Journal included an article titled Preserving Records in the Cloud written by Jan Askhoj, Shigeo Sugimoto and Mitsuharu Nagamori. The paper, “examines the characteristics of managing records in a cloud computing environment and compares these with existing archiving models, exemplified by the open archival information system (OAIS) reference model.” The paper concludes, “that there are a number of areas where OAIS does not integrate well with cloud computing systems. Based on the findings, a new layered model for a cloud archiving system is defined using the concepts and information types from the OAIS reference model. The proposed model allows the sharing of functionality and information objects by making them available as services to higher layers. The model covers the entire document lifecycle, making archive functionality such as preservation planning possible at an early stage and helping to simplify records transfer.”

Preserving records in the cloud

BPE 2012 Presentations

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:13:14 +0000

The Best Practices Exchange has posted their 2012 conference presentations online. These presentations focus on managing e-records, web archiving, managing digital photographs, and disaster recovery of digital material.

You can link to all of the presentations here: http://bpexchange.org/

Data Curation Bibliography

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:16:46 +0000

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. recently released his Research Data Curation Bibliography which includes selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions.

The bibliography can be accessed here: http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

The Digital Curation Exchange

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:08:13 +0000

Visit the Digital Curation Exchange website that has been created to serve as a “town center” for the practitioners, researchers, educators, and students of digital curation. Visitors can view a range of information on digital curation, and if you create an account you can add digital curation events, jobs, resources, or questions and discuss what others have shared in the comments section.

Check out the space for all things relating to digital curation: http://digitalcurationexchange.org/

How Much of the Web Is Archived?

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:59:48 +0000

An article written by Scott G. Ainsworth, Ahmed AlSum, Hany SalahEldeen, Michele C. Weigle, and Michael L. Nelson from Old Dominion University focuses on web archiving and looks at how much of the web is archived.

Check out the article here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.6177v2.pdf

An Electronic Records Management Implementation Journal: Month Two

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:45:55 +0000

After the planning stage for implementing an electronic records management program, an organization needs to focus on distributing the message that this implementation needn’t be a huge strain on the organization’s resources. This can be done by focusing on 1 page summaries that are terrifically layered, require attention, and promote Q&A sessions – rather than relying solely on PowerPoint presentations.

For more details, check out this article by Mimi Dionne: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/an-electronic-records-management-implementation-journal-month-two-018860.php

An Electronic Records Management Implementation Journal: Month One

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:38:20 +0000

Follow the planning for implementing an electronic records management program when an organization will need to:
Update the organization’s records retention schedule
Create project management templates
Host status meetings with every functional team in the Information Technology department
Learn Advanced VBA for Excel
Prepare all training materials
Conduct usability training
Prepare and circulate executive-level presentation for peer input

For more details, check out this article by Mimi Dionne: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/an-electronic-records-management-implementation-journal-month-one-018357.php

Digital Transition Policy

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:34:05 +0000

The Australian Commonwealth Government has issued a policy directive which requires all Government agencies to transition from reliance on paper for records towards digital records management for efficiency purposes. The National Archives of Australia has issued a range of information about how this could be done. Some of the information relates to:
* Benefits of going digital
* Obtaining senior management support
* Scanning incoming paper
* Reducing paper stockpiles
* Self-assessment of records management capabilities
* Incorporating records management functionality into business systems
* Reviewing business practices to reduce reliance on paper

For more information, view the Digital Transition Policy website at the National Archives of Australia: http://www.naa.gov.au/records-management/digital-transition-policy/index.aspx

The Sedona Conference Publishes Primer on Social Media

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:25:12 +0000

The Sedona Conference has published a public comment version of its latest paper, The Sedona Conference Primer on Social Media. The primer is described in its Preface as follows:

“It contains plenty of practical guidance for attorneys, judges, and parties. This is called a “Primer” because the goal is to provide primary instruction to the bar and bench in the basics of social media and the law, from definitions, to the use of social media in business, to the discovery of social media in litigation, to professional responsibilities lawyers have in relation to their own use of social media. This is a fast-developing and fast-changing area of technical, social, and legal development, and any consensus-based Commentary or set of Principles that claims to advance the law in this area may be doomed to obsolescence as soon as it is announced on Twitter. However, we hope that this Primer represents a positive first step in grounding the dialogue leading to consensus on moving the law forward in the reasoned and just way.”

You can download the paper here: https://thesedonaconference.org/publication/Primer%20on%20Social%20Media

Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR)

Leslie R. Knoblauch — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:10:16 +0000

The Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) has been released to the public. The UDFR is a reliable, publicly accessible, and sustainable knowledge base of file format representation information for use by the digital preservation community. The UDFR seeks to “unify” the function and holdings of two existing registries, PRONOM and GDFR (the Global Digital Format Registry), in an open source, semantically enabled, and community supported platform. The UDFR was developed by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), funded by the Library of Congress as part of its National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

Check out the project’s website to read further details and to review the project’s Final Report.