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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

When we talk about records management on this blog, we often use the “R.I.M.” ” or “RIM” acronym as a shorthand way to refer to the “records and information management” field. But how is information governance any different than records management? Collaboration.

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A Record Center is Not an Archives: Some thoughts from an interview

The Schedule

A recent assignment for one of her classes was to interview a practicing Archivist and/or Records Manager about the “qualified practices” of the profession and write up a paper/presentation/something else summarizing and analyzing it. What made you want to switch from archives to records management?

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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Transition to Information Governance?

ARMA International

In my stuffier moments, I define IG as being “the application of formal and informal controls to ensure information is managed according to your organization’s legal, operational, and technical requirements.” [1]. Hmmm … sounds a lot like records management, doesn’t it? Here’s how one organization pulled this off.

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The Fenway Library Organization provides affordable digital preservation to its members

Preservica

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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The State of Content Management in 2020 [Expert Tips & Research]

AIIM

ecmXperts' Michael Corts recommends adding "cloud-based access to server share content.". Informsys Consult’s Carlos Bassi adds, “Make the content management system the only source of information.”. Most folks at your organization are not records managers - they just want to get stuff done.”.

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

ARMA International

The memex was a hypothetical information-centric hypertext device that would permit people to access any information, regardless of where it was stored. This implies a cloud computing model that ARMA defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

Analyzing , Information Governance , Records Management. However, it is now common knowledge that their production, especially in Africa, destroys the soil in open-pit mines, where all ecological considerations are absent, and which favors exploitation of local poverty. Digital sobriety. Anne-Claire Girard. 25 November 2021.