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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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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Like records management , info literacy has considerable social justice implications. George Despres, CRM.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

This will definitely impact the timeline required to do the migration, as well as what happens to the source system and the data it contains. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)? Again, if the source system is being decommissioned, the organization may need to migrate everything.

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

The Schedule

The lack of input in the piece by any institutional archivist, records manager or content management administrator was frustrating. Those of us in academic and legal environments have been dealing with link and citation rot for ages. Are you including the records of the organization in your definition of archives?

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

ARMA International

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. Information and Content Explosion. References.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

The business case must provide the rationale for the initiative, the problem definition, the current state, and the vision of the future state, for example. As well, it must define the initiative’s benefits, costs, risks, and impacts. Many organizations have business case templates. Retrieved June 2021. Retrieved June 2021.

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How to Manage Information - Growing Your Own Success

AIIM

Some are nice to look at, but quickly proliferate to obscure those tasty fruits and vegetables until they rot. Information management is like gardening - bringing the skills, processes, and tools to bear to keep the garden (and your information!) ROT can unnecessarily increase storage costs, cause confusion, and clog up search.

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