A co-worker alerted me to this news story in the United Kingdom about an external contractor who lost a flash drive containing sensitive personal information. The article begins this way: Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, was today accused of being worse than “the Keystone Cops” at keeping data safe following the loss a memory stick [...]
Another wondrous piece of technology that’s touted as the answer to the age-old question asked since the days of Sumerian clay-carving scribes: how to write more in less time. LiveSribe thinks it may have the answer in its latest offering, the “Pulse smartpen with built-in memory that digitally transcribes written words and at the same [...]
Update for 02008 07 31: The Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments was released at the 2008 ICA Congress in three modules as Adobe Acrobat PDF files: Module 1: Overview and Statement of Principles Module 2: Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems Module 3: Guidelines and Functional Requirements [...]
According to the Project Introduction for the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, The joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of digital geospatial data resources from state and local government agencies in North Carolina. The objectives [...]
Information Zen is the very cleverly named social/business networking water cooler created by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) for anyone in the information management, records management and enterprise content management fields. AIIM is also rebranding its online E-DOC Magazine to Infonomics. One of AIIM’s recent marketing tools, “What’s In Your Digital Landfill?”, a [...]
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report titled Federal Records: National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management (GAO-08-742, June 02008; Adobe Acrobat PDF, 1.19MB).
Archives New Zealand (Te Rua Mahara o te KÄwanatanga), the national public archives, has a nice section on its Continuum site about Digital Recordkeeping.
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(2), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 06 24
According to the June 02008 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library “have jointly developed a format for transferring digital content. ‘BagIt’ is based on the concept of ‘bag it and tag it,’ where digital content is packaged (the bag) along with a small amount of machine-readable [...]
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 13): DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1â€3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital [...]
Update for 02008 04 27: I received my beta-invite acknowledgement by e-mail on April 23, 02008 and finally got around to registering and creating my first Twine on electronic records. Since there was already one called Digital Preservation, I was prevented from using those two words. Here’s a screenshot of my Electronic Records Twine. I [...]
The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter for April 2008 has a little writeup about the demonstration Chronopolis datagrid framework being run by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and its partners across the United States. According to the article “the partnership will develop best practices for the entire NDIIPP [National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation [...]
Update for 02008 04 04: The PREMIS Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the release of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0. This document is a revision of Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final report of the PREMIS Working Group, issued in May 2005. The PREMIS Data Dictionary and its supporting documentation [...]
As announced on various mailing lists (02008 04 04): Issue no. 17 (September 2007 – February 2008) of the DPC “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue17.html “What’s New” will also be available shortly on the following website: National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html “What’s New” [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 03 28) about the release of PLATTER (Planning Tool for Trusted Electronic Repositories) by Digital Preservation Europe: Digital repositories are entrusted by their stakeholders – depositors, funders and end-users – with the curation of vital and often irreplaceable electronic assets. Repositories typically validate that trust by subjecting themselves to [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 03 26): As part of our Digital Continuity project, The National Archives has developed a set of standards to help government departments and the wider public sector assess commercially available digital preservation solutions. The standards comprise a high-level description of what a digital preservation solution should provide, with cross-references [...]
This page of Upcoming Events at the European Project PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) will help you plan your digital preservation meeting attendances.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and hundreds of other news sources are reporting on a new deal announced on February 21, 02008 between Google and the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center, to test a system to store and share a patient’s medical information with multiple health care providers. According to the news story, “Patient participation is [...]
The Utah State Archives maintains a superb set of links to Electronic Records information for its own and other jurisdictions.
Marie Cooley, a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, thought she was going to lose her job Steven E. Hutchins Architects when she read a help wanted ad. So she snuck into her workplace one day and deleted an estimated $2.5 million worth of electronic records. Having confessed to the crime, she faces possible jail time. With [...]
I stumbled across a link to Catherine C. Marshall’s blog the other day. She’s a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Corporation, a member of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries Texas A&M University, and the lead author of “The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings: Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives”, available [...]
The UK Digital Curatoion Centre is seeking public comments on its Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model according to this announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 01 15): The Digital Curation Centre was delighted to present the Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model at the 3rd International Digital Curation Conference 2007. The model provides a generic graphical high-level overview [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(4), 4Q2007, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_4.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02007 12 16
Also from the Image Permanence Institute comes the amazing Digital Sample Book in which you can explore through extreme magnification examples of various kinds of printing technology used for images, including ones used before and after analog photography.
From an announcement posted to DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 11 15): Major European stakeholders in science and scientific information have joined to establish the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science to develop a coordinated European solution for the problems of permanent access to the digital records of science. For more information on the Alliance [...]
Evidence-Based Governance in the Electronic Age was a three-year project (02001-02004) started by the World Bank in partnership with the International Records Management Trust. The purpose of the project was to assess and develop capacity for dealing with electronic records in countries lacking good records management capabilities.
Update for 02007 11 05: As announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and other mailing lists (02007 11 05): The National Archives is pleased to announce the release of major new versions of its PRONOM technical registry and DROID automatic file format identification tool. These have been developed to meet the requirements of The National Archives’ Seamless Flow [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(3) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_3.htm. According to the announcement I received, “The core of DDQ 6(3) is the beginning of a critique of Information Science. This critique, planned to continue in future DDQ numbers, explores the proposition that Information Science will not resolve current uncertainties about its place as an [...]
The Digital Lives Research Project, led by the British Library’s Neil Beagrie, formally got underway in September 02007. The project’s focus is personal digital collections. In addition to the main Web site, there’s also a Typepad-powered Digital Lives Research Project Team Blog.
According to a posting on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UKÂ (02007 10 01), “The US National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) has just released a new call for proposals for ‘Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet).’ The DataNet seeks to foster the development of new types of organizations that ‘integrate library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer [...]
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