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Integrating Long-Term Digital Preservation into Your Information Governance Program: First Steps

Preservica

More importantly, IG practitioners who participated in the survey indicated that they were aware hardware and software obsolescence represents a threat to the usability and readability of long-term digital information and records. For the time being, long-term digital preservation is a future area of focus on the IG roadmap.

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2019-2020 Records Management Section Steering Committee

The Schedule

Jessika is Williams College’s Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist. This is her fourth year serving on the records management steering committee. Based in Williamstown Massachusetts, Jessika leads the records management program and navigates records policies specific for small liberal arts colleges.

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Land records are permanent. What is your e-records preservation strategy?

Preservica

Digitization services abound in the public sector and the resulting images and their metadata can be readily managed by dedicated land management systems or by any number of content and records management technologies. Electronic Records Preservation.

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Transition to Electronic Government: Signs of the Time

Preservica

A recent sign of the times was the December 31, 2019 deadline for federal agencies to manage all permanent electronic records appraised for eventual transfer and accessioning by NARA in an electronic format. If you’re doing any of those things, you need to be finding a way to document and keep those records for request.”.

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FAQ: Can I destroy a paper original after scanning?

The Texas Record

Both local governments and state agencies want to know if they ‘go paperless’ — if they digitize their essential records — can they get rid of the original paper or film copies? For state agencies , the authority to store records electronically is found in Tex.

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Why we need long-term thinking for long-term records

Preservica

Here’s why we need to think long-term and take action to protect critical digital records: Maintaining perspective. As records management professionals, we’re still fighting the thorny issue of getting people to pay attention in the normal course of business operations to records that need care and protection.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Using his familiarity with the Imperial protocols, an Imperial ship, and an outdated Imperial authentication code, Rook convinced the controllers of the Shield Gate to let his ship full of Rebels into Scarif. And who is the Records Management Officer? The software systems in place worked properly, but the humans (i.e.,