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ESI, ROT, and LBJ – Thoughts on Data Management While Visiting the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

In 2016, a study by Veritas found that as much as 85% of ESI is Redundant, Obsolete, or Trivial (ROT). most of it ROT. How does your organization keep ROT at bay? Here’s a famous example of a case where a company failed to meet its duty to preserve. So, what do you think?

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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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Welcome new Archive-It teammates

Archive-It

She brings her experience in book digitization, including as a Digitization Assistant with University of Alberta’s Digital Initiatives project, and her time as a Research Assistant documenting link and image rot using image recognition tools. by the Archive-It team. The Archive-It team is growing!

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. I have spent 30-plus years in the tech and media industries, mainly as a journalist, observer, and founder of companies that either make or support journalism and storytelling. It’s Broke. Let’s Fix It.

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Susan Sherrouse AIIM18 Speaker Interview

AIIM

I contend that it is a constant education process to differentiate Information Professionals from Information TECHNOLOGY Professionals. I've taken quite a few vintage quilts out of attics, quilted them, and they are now in use daily and loved - versus rotting away. What questions are you asked the most by your colleagues?

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

ARMA International

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

PPP wanted to give their past high school selves the infosec education they didn’t have. It seems that preparing for, or even playing a game of capture the flag, might be a great way to expose any educational gaps, if not generally improve and deepen the security skills, you might already possess. But what about the basics?