When building an archive for digital records, there are many things that you need to consider. Everything from where will your cabling go, to what types of racks, how many servers are needed, what will the flooring be and so forth.
However, as servers are being created smaller and faster, they are also using more and [...]
At the recent NSW Public Sphere event at Parliament House hosted by Penny Sharpe MLC, NSW government organisations including the NSW Police, the Department of Education and Training and NSW Transport and Infrastructure spoke about initiatives in their organisations that are taking advantage of new and popular web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, microblogging (Twitter), [...]
Most organisations run busness systems for core business such as case management systems, as well as supporting systems for finances, HR etc (eg SAP). For document management and recordkeeping purposes, integration of these systems with an EDRMS is often required. Challenges of doing these integrations can include how to capture and reuse metadata rather than [...]
The decision to select a product to manage digital records must be driven by an organisation’s needs and closely linked to business benefits. Generally an organisation will develop a specification document which identifies the functionality and requirements for the organisation.
Various software products may have different strengths in various functions (such as document management and records management) and it [...]
Requirements for destroying digital records
The destruction of digital records is different to the destruction of hardcopy records. In particular, simply pressing ‘delete’ does not necessarily mean that the records are completely gone; while the link used to access them may be removed, they may still exist in a data store or on a server in the [...]