The September 2011 issue of the "Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World" newsletter is online.

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http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/007001/f2/007001-110900-e.pdf          September Issue

Managing Electronic Records

Recordkeeping has been with us since the start of recorded history. Electronic management of paper records has been available for 25 years. On the other hand, electronic management of electronic records is a much more recent development.

A special section of this months newsletter features a report produced by AIIM based on the responses of 709 AIIM members.


The report examines (1) the confidence levels in the integrity of electronic records (2) the business and compliance drivers for better management of electronic content (3) the adoption levels of records management (RM) systems and the strategies for their application (4) the problems of email (5) issues of legal discovery across both paper and electronic records, and the benefits and returns reported by existing users of e-discovery systems and (6) the experience of AIIM users as reflected in their involvement in court proceedings based on electronic recordkeeping.


Additional articles in this month's issue include:

1) Federal government agencies embrace social media Australia - General News

2) Australian Information Commissioner releases Information Publication Scheme (IPS) Australia - General News

3) Proposed plans would allow "orphan works" to be available online across Europe Europe - General News

4)  New law impacts UK websites
United Kingdom  - General News

The new law will require UK businesses and other organizations to obtain consent from visitors to their websites to store or access information on their computers

5) Federal agencies begin to share best practices on social media records
United States - Federal Government - General News

6) National Archivist: Current law could result in lost documents
United States - Federal Government - General News

7) Government agencies are actively exploring cloud computing options United States - Federal Government - General News

8) Electronic Discovery Act increases e-Discovery pressure on California cities
United States - State Government - California  - General News

9) New Mexico agencies must provide electronic records
United States - State Government - New Mexico - General News

10) Data.gov.au Website
Australia -  Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

The Data.gov.au website enables users to suggest datasets they would like released by Australian government agencies, participate on the site by rating and commenting on datasets, and contribute submissions of mashups or data-based initiatives they produce.

11) PrestoCentre
Europe - Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

PrestoCentre is a membership driven organization that brings together a community of stakeholders in audiovisual digitization and digital preservation to share, work and learn, provide advice to custodians and creators of audiovisual content, and to work closely with international experts.

12) BlogForever
Europe - Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

BlogForever is a collaborative European Union funded project whose aim is to develop robust digital preservation, management and dissemination facilities for blogs.

13) Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers)
Finland - National Library - Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

The National Library of Finland has launched a national e-program for the digitization of Finland's historical documents and material.

The e-program, Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers), harnesses the power of crowdsourcing to mobilize people to help digitize millions of pages of archive material.

14) COMET (Cambridge OPen METadata) Project United Kingdom - Cambridge University and OCLC Research
Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

This project will release a sub-set of bibliographic data from Cambridge University Library catalogues as linked data in multiple formats. This activity will test a number of technologies and methodologies for releasing open bibliographic data.

15) MIDAS (Museum Integrated Digital Archiving System) Project United Kingdom - University of East London - Recordkeeping: Current Developments, Projects and Future Initiatives

The project creates an integrated mobile facility for the scanning and subsequent exhibiting of fragile museum artifacts not only for archiving purposes but also to allow museums throughout the world to exchange digital displays of their priceless exhibits.

16) Digital Preservation Policies: Guidance for archives United Kingdom - National Archives - Products and Tools from Around the World

17) Quiz: Some Interesting Facts about Digital Media United States - Library of Congress - Products and Tools from Around the World

18) Four Tips For Managing Your Electronic Records (Includes White Paper) United States - TAB - Products and Tools from Around the World

19) Tips for Selecting and Implementing Records Management (RM) Software in the Hybrid
      RM Environment (Includes White Paper) United States - TAB - Products and Tools from Around the World

20) The Open Government Portfolio Public Value Assessment Tool (PVAT) United States - University of Albany - Products and Tools from Around the World

The tool provides a series of questions that take agencies through a review of their existing and proposed open government plans to ensure that resources are being used on those initiatives with the greatest promise and to quickly assess the public value of their open government initiatives.

21) Article: Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles United Kingdom - Articles, White Papers, Presentations, Reports

22) Preserving Our Digital Heritage: The National Digital Information and Preservation Program 2010 Report United States - Articles, White Papers, Presentations, Reports

23) Report: New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation United States - Articles, White Papers, Presentations, Reports


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