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How Long Should I Keep This Business Record For?

AIIM

This is perhaps one of the most-asked questions in all of records management. Too often I hear one of two, equally bad answers: Keep Records for Seven years: This seems to be the de facto answer, especially for financial services records. There's gold in them thar records ! BIG DATA!!!

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Establishing Records Management at Brandeis—The First Eighteen Months

Brandeis Records Manager

George Despres, University Records Manager, Brandeis University. The Brandeis University Records Management (URM) program has much in front of it, but some solid foundational accomplishments behind it. And of course, we’re all fully staffed, right? What a year and a half it has been!

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AI, Records, and Accountability

ARMA International

Records management should have a role in addressing some of the risks posed by AI given its mission of creating reliable records and its ethical core value of promoting accountability. Both issue areas involve complicated questions of responsibility that require the capture of a reliable and understandable record.

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Data Security Begins with Content Minimization: A 3-Step Approach

AIIM

However, one significant contributing factor in many of them was that organizations collected and retained data they generally didn’t need – and if they did, they didn’t need to retain it as long as they had. The key consideration here is that you don’t have to worry about data being breached if you don’t have it in the first place.

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Integrating Structured and Unstructured Data; Are we there already?

Everteam

It only makes sense then that you would want a file analytics solution that can analyze both structured and unstructured data doesn’t it? Of course, due to compliance and security requirements you can’t simply merge all your data and provide it to everyone in the company in a big data lake; you need data governance.

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Law and Technology Move Center Stage

Positively RIM

Tech featured the world of Big Data, while a mock trial and an exploration of IG in the public sector excited the legal eagles. Both presenters and attendees agreed: Big Data is ignored at one’s own peril, and it raises a multitude of questions and ethical dilemmas. Why is Big Data significant for Information Governance?

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The Pushmi-Pullyu Impact of Technology Innovation on Information Preservation

AIIM

Many of you are aware that I’ve been working on a personal mystery project on the weekends that I’m publishing on Medium since it goes beyond the kind of thing we usually cover in this space ( In search of my Grandparents -- A records management journey ). Lastly, enter big data technologies to help link all of this together.