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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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Key Takeaways from the NARA Digitizing Permanent Records Webinar

National Archives Records Express

Metadata and Documentation Accurate and comprehensive metadata is crucial for the successful management and retrieval of digitized records. Metadata should include information such as record titles, dates, descriptions, and unique identifiers. Validation and Disposition Validation is a key step in the digitization process.

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SAA RMS bibliography completed in Zotero. for now!

The Schedule

The SAA Records Management Section steering committee has been working hard over the past several years to improve upon the records management bibliography that was disseminated in 2008 (and, in case you’re interested in historical RM documentation, is available on our microsite at [link] — file name RMRTBibliography2012.pdf

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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

Consistent document capture and file naming. Because automated scan workflows are predefined, capture parameters including output quality and output file formats can be consistent for a particular process, for example, scanned invoices may be in jpg whereas legal documents are PDFs.

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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.