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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1. Does it drive workflow?

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Build a Cloud-First Content Management Strategy in Three Simple Steps

AIIM

This enables you to: Increase productivity – employees will have the tools and content they need at their fingertips, wherever they’re working. Reduce Storage Costs – by getting rid of your ROT (redundant, obsolete or trivial) data BEFORE migration, plus the potential cost saving of infrastructure maintenance over license fees.

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MS Teams Information Governance - A Checklist for Success

AIIM

Make the most of metadata by utilizing systems that help automate how metadata is applied while retaining unstructured data in place. Put more intelligence into governance either by auto-tagging and categorizing content to kick off a retention workflow or by proactively managing the archival of business content and disposal of ROT.

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Common Problems with Content Migrations

AIIM

Process Dependencies: Work processes, both manual and automated, may rely on how a system works, what its reports contain, how its metadata is structured, and more. Missing Metadata: This is often the case because new fields were added; in many instances, these new fields are also mandatory. This is also known as metadata enrichment.

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Preserving Content from Closed Systems Part 2: Digital Preservation of Social Media

Preservica

Well the good news is that Twitter has a very comprehensive API that allows you to extract everything about a tweet in JSON format including the text and plenty of metadata – everything you could possibly need for preservation. However, the challenge is that a tweet contains other information alongside the text and metadata.

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Implementing Information Management on SharePoint and Office365

AIIM

There is no SharePoint fairy that assesses all your information, uploads just the valuable stuff to SharePoint, applies appropriate access controls, and fills in the metadata. It includes leveraging SharePoint's capabilities to streamline and automate common tasks like applying metadata, retention management, and basic workflows.

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How to Perform a Content Migration - Your Checklist for Success

AIIM

This phase would include the following steps: Take Inventory of the Source System: This means identifying the information in the system, its metadata, how it is categorized and classified, any relevant business rules or workflows, security settings, etc. Or is much of it redundant, outdated or obsolete, or trivial (ROT)?

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