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Digital Vs. Electronic Records Management FAQs and Differences

Armstrong Archives

The terms “digital” and “electronic” are often used interchangeably these days, including when it comes to talking about records management. Digital Vs. Electronic Records – FAQs and Differences. What is a digital record? A digital record is a document that originated in digital format.

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What is Information Capture? Definition, Purpose, and Value

AIIM

AIIM's training offers this definition for Capture: Capture is the process of getting records (or documents) that you have created into some sort of information management system, and recording their existence in the system. The first step on this journey is to get all of your information into the information ecosystem.

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Digital vs Electronic Records: Understanding the Distinction

Armstrong Archives

The terms “digital” and “electronic” are often used interchangeably these days, including when it comes to talking about records management. Digital Vs. Electronic Records – FAQs and Differences To understand the differences between digital and electronic records, let’s define each of them and look at the uses of each.

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What is the Value of Records and Information Management?

AIIM

Think about technology like email, personal computers, the web, smart phones, social media, etc. Now ask yourself – who is in charge of managing all of that information? In many cases, Records Management tasks are being done by people with little to no Records Management Training.

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Calculating electronic records storage costs

The Schedule

Last week, I walked through the various considerations and costs of storing paper records. This post will do the same for electronic records and follows the same formula of not taking into account personnel or overhead costs or depreciation of equipment. On-Premise Storage. Cloud Storage.

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FAQ Redux: Can a state agency destroy a paper original after scanning?

The Texas Record

While there is not an explicit paragraph in the rules stating that any record can be store electronically, in Section 6.92(4), While there is not an explicit paragraph in the rules stating that any record can be store electronically, in Section 6.92(4),

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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.