Better late than never....
Sorry to come in on this thread so late, but I have been away on holiday. We
are starting some preliminary work on a publication to compliment SPECTRUM
dealing with knowledge management in museums. A probable procedure in such a
publication will be "Knowledge Audit". Clearly the process of finding out
what information is contained on PCs and in filing cabinets is likely to
bring to light some of the undesirable stuff referred to in this thread as
well as more useful information. We intend that this publication will
provide useful information on managing this issue, as well as providing
links to other useful sources of advice. Publication is planned for 2001.
In terms of liability, a key difficulty is differentiating between what is
undesirable and what is illegal. Clearly our intended publication has to be
careful about how it gives examples of this sort of thing- mda has yet to
market its products in brown paper packaging! I discussed the issue with
some police officers taking part in the "Beyond Control" seminar, organised
by the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University earlier on this year.
There can be no generalisations, but as a rule of thumb if it includes
children or animals it is probably illegal.
If anyone has any interest in contributing to the "SPECTRUM Knowledge"
project I would be very pleased to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Matthew Stiff
Dr Matthew Stiff
Head of Standards
mda, 19 Riverside Road, Oxford, OX2 0HT
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Assessing the impact of the newest technologies on museums, libraries and
archives, the next mda Conference will take
place in Newcastle on the week starting 4 September 2000.
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> Subject: RE: Inappropriate access
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> Many thanks for all your replies. Some of them will come in
> useful if/when we
> get our NoF or other funding, but the situation here is much simpler - a
> single, unnetworked, employee with a dial-up account (a situation
> mirrored in a
> large percentage of homes), who could inadvertently see a bad
> site, and have it
> cached by their machine, or receive an inappropriate email. I
> feel that the
> risk of being sued is minuscule. Unless someone believes that
> small museums
> have large budgets, and deliberately targets them!
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> With best wishes,
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> Pat Reynolds
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