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Digitizing Records: Understanding Metadata Requirements

National Archives Records Express

Maintaining control and organization over records is crucial for effective information management. The regulation defines the necessary metadata requirements, which encompass the information that describes and provides context for digitized records. This ensures that essential information is associated with each digital record.

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RIM Month Virtual Colloquium, date and lineup announcement for April 7th 1-3pm EST!

The Schedule

The SAA Records Management Section invites you to attend our free (!) RIM month virtual colloquium highlighting records and information management issues. A case study in creating a Getty retention compliant electronic file naming system for Procurement. Redeveloping relationships with records creators.

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Intelligent Search – Strategies to Find What You Need

AIIM

Sift and Aggregate: With so much information to manage, it can help to reduce the chaos. Often, you can make some good initial decisions right away by examining things like file name, path name, and file extensions before you attempt to migrate, read, or index the content itself.

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Guest Post - How important is digital document consistency?

AIIM

Obviously digital document accuracy is particularly important for government and regulated industries. Consistent document capture and file naming. Another area that lends itself to mixed results is in file naming structure. A client number or name can be taken from the barcode and appended to the filename.

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Know Your Program – SWOT Analysis

The Texas Record

No management buy-in may be an internal flaw (weakness) for some programs because they are unable to influence management’s mindset by showing value in their program. For other programs it may be an external risk (threat) because management has decided to downsize the records management department.

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Creating Records At Home, Part III: Various Devices

The Texas Record

A best practice for efficient managers is to analyze hypothetical risk to know how to prevent and address the risk if it were to ever occur. This could result in the government office losing the ability to properly manage and dispose of government records. See “ How Does Records Management Benefit Us, Anyway?