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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. It instead provides a different, indeed overlooked, angle – a documentary focus – in which to situate discussions and practices with information. A Documentary Approach.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Bush’s vision coupled with the commoditization of computers and communication devices, the development of the Internet, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the World Wide Web, and the web browser by Tim Berners-Lee, along with many other developments accelerated the information revolution. Then, in 2014 came Blockchain 2.0

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

These floors contain offices, a record center, a library and researcher area, a processing area, and the archives. On the fifth floor, part of the ceiling in the library had collapsed on top of archives and records that sat on top of the research table away from the windows. Hurricane Ida Preparations. Peterson, A. Smallwood, R.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Information Governance (IG). It is acknowledged that IG “helps organizations achieve business objectives, facilitates compliance with external requirements, and minimizes risk posed by sub-standard information handling practices” (ARMA 2016, p 28). Glossary of Records Management and Information Governance Terms, 5th ed.,

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Establishing Records Management at Brandeis—The First Eighteen Months

Brandeis Records Manager

Our initial client service engagements—managed offsite storage and retrieval, secure document shredding, digitization, and, recently, electronic redaction—began in March of 2014. Services and Stakeholders. Most of these engagements were outcomes of the initial stakeholder meetings, but several came to us by word of mouth.