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The Office of Management and Budget recently released a list of 78 projects identified for transition to Cloud storage/provision over the next year - mainly email, website hosting and info portals
The Director-General of UNESCO has announced that the National Archives of Australia has been awarded the 2011 UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World prize for innovation in preserving digital records and heritage documents.
The prize recognises the Archi
Demise of Google Newspaper Archive Shows Need for National Digital Library Policy
Interesting article, raising tricky copyright issues for authors when their work is re-published on the internet as part of a larger digitisation
(Apologies for cross-postings)
Registration including information on the program, speaker biographies, accomodation, bursaries and Visa requiremnents is now open at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/suv2011/ for the
International Council on Archives: Sect
Archival photos of the Boston Globe’s pre-internet, analogue "webpage".
Just imagine, all these people in the street - now sitting at home in front of a screen...
Newspaper Row storefront, 1912-1963
http://bit.ly/kfhtCD (via @Rainbyte)
The challenge of memory card storage devices
More and more storage available, and users are wondering whether to upgrade.
The main challenges - preservation, recordkeeping requirements, access and disposal.
Who would have thought?
The last entry in these records will be 100 years old next year. I would be interested to know how Scotland Yard intend to justify keeping them closed to protect identities of informants. Surely they're all long dead?
With Chromebook, the forecast looks increasingly cloudy
Google's new laptop offering stores your data only in the cloud.
It's being especially promoted to schools and businesses - with the idea of massive savings on storage,
On 4 May 2011, the National Sports Museum helped launch a brand new smart phone service that offers Australian sign language (Auslan) translations of audio tours in museums, galleries and other exhibition environments. Auslan is the first language fo
Friday 13th of May
FREE EVENT - All are welcome, stay for one or both of the following presentations:
Proudly brought to you by the Australian Society of Archivists Victorian Branch
2.30pm
Keith De La Rue,
Building and managing a knowledge transfer progra
"The right-to-know revolution of the last 20 years has largely bypassed Africa"
http://bit.ly/dSQ8OW Agnès Callamard
Social Research: An international quarterly
| Issue: | Volume 77, Number 4 / Winter 2010 | |
| Special Issue: | From Impunity to Accountability: A |
Important points about the future and development of enterprise software.
But I have to agree with the comment that Box is apples compared with Sharepoint oranges, for info management...
Still no simple answers for the challenge of managing e-records:
NARA to end e-records project (Computerworld) http://bit.ly/i7oblv
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will end development of its electronic records archive (ERA)
Converting paper records to digital?
:-)
File no.4 from doiion on Vimeo.
Commodore 64 now available, for all your retro computing fun!
ICA Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems
Reviewed in "Practical E-Records" http://bit.ly/eczx5z
PGE brushes off record-keeping concerns
A good system taken for granted, cut back beyond reason and allowed to deteriorate.
When discussing the importance or urgency of investing in information management, never let anyone tell you "no one ever died
Move over Hollywood
- is the Australian Immigration Dept, the world's most expensive video editor?
Public records from "The Vault" vault.fbi.gov
For those of us who don't get out much: FBI e-reading room
- searchable dossiers on UFOs, Al Capone, Notorious B.I.G., 9/11 hijackers.
"The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than
