A Friday question
I have just been asked a question about the amount of paper
we store and whether we could expect this amount to reduce over the coming years
based on us becoming ever more reliant on electronic systems. The theory is
that as things go in to structured databases and we sweep up unstructured information
in an EDRMS and scan most of the rest in to the EDRM we end up with less and
less physical stuff to store.
My experience of this is that the more we produce and store
electronically the more we seems to have to store as paper.
Does anyone know of any studies in to this? Has anyone actually
charted a reduction in the amount of paper we have to store due to increase
reliance on electronic systems or is there still a steady increase in the
amount of physical stuff being stored?
Chris Tinsley
Wiltshire Council