How the State of Israel Is Bringing Its Analog History to the Web - The Atlantic The blog's part of a larger effort to digitize all of Israel's analog state records. But to do that, they must first limit and grapple with their data set, by making a list of *every* Israeli government position and the functions of each. This is something that's never been done, as "the various levels of officialdom [might] fulfill some 100,000 functions." The whole process recalls a programmer's method, going through and defining all the functions it's possible to call before being able to use any of them. http://bit.ly/N8EsHr Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-it-takes-to-bring-the-state-of-israels-analog-history-online/259415/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/N8EsHr+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the words UNSUBSCRIBE RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]