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When Pressing Delete Is OK: Learn How to Eliminate ROT in Your Organization

AIIM

This causes enough problems by itself, but when you then add to the pile all the redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information you have in your systems, on your file shares, and in every other possible location, it’s a real nightmare. Don’t Let Your Information ROT. Identifying and Evaluating ROT.

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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

Reduce Storage Costs – by getting rid of your ROT (redundant, obsolete or trivial) data BEFORE migration, plus the potential cost saving of infrastructure maintenance over license fees. It also reduces storage costs by eradicating ROT data. Move archives to cloud storage repositories. Step 2: Classify Your Data.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Put more intelligence into governance either by auto-tagging and categorizing content to kick off a retention workflow or by proactively managing the archival of business content and disposal of ROT. Prioritize day-forward automated classification , particularly for email, process archives, and routine inbound content.

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Welcome new Archive-It teammates

Archive-It

by the Archive-It team. The Archive-It team is growing! Three Web Archivists (and alumnae of the Internet Archive’s digitization program in Canada) and a Program Manager have joined the team, as we continue to build out and provide new support to our expanding list of web archiving partners.

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Retention vs. Records Management

Gimmal

By minimizing the redundant, obsolete, and trivial content (ROT) , your organization organically generates cost savings. ROT makes it more difficult to find what you need when you need it. The Steps to Records Management: Creation and Collaboration Version Control Retention and Storage Hold and Discovery Disposition or Archiving.

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review. Those of us in academic and legal environments have been dealing with link and citation rot for ages.

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Preserving your information from digital disasters

Preservica

Digital disasters of systems are increasingly common due to a number of factors including human error, computer job error, natural and manmade disasters, cybercrime, bit rot, and file format obsolescence. Here are examples of how disk rot, a natural disaster, and data breaches can cause monumental losses.

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