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The Pushmi-Pullyu Impact of Technology Innovation on Information Preservation

AIIM

In the process of working on this personal genealogy project (especially on the Ancestry.com platform) and simultaneously doing a bit of work for a company called Preservica , it has struck me that there is a profound technology duality at play when it comes to long-term information preservation. Ancestry.co.uk

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The Information Management Umbrella

Brandeis Records Manager

And our legacy paper-based services, along with the business-side mission focus, preclude seamless IT departmental membership, though some academic RM programs are understandably going in this direction. Information is not bound by format, covering structured and unstructured data, as well as complex multimedia products.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

The farmer can use AI to evaluate the results and then, based on data, decide to repeat or modify the process. Before, travellers booked their trips through agents, who issued paper tickets, confirmations, car-rental documents, and so on. Starting with a clean sheet of paper, they have designed business processes that are streamlined.

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What Is Our Professional Future?

Brandeis Records Manager

When we consider that fixed, controlled records following recordkeeping principles and information governance are typical objectives in our programs, it’s not unreasonable to get a little scared by this. Mass duplication and the decrease of fixity are two considerable pieces of it; a perpetual state of becoming (i.e.,