We (ARMA) are continuing to work with SNIA and will have involvement in their Enterprise Information World....including some outstanding speakers.
 
One of the items with which we continue to struggle is SNIA's view that Records and Information Managers classify records into categories that are far too numerous and far too narrow.  Their view (NOT mine), is that we need to find some way to minimize the categories to .... say five (5).  I cannot imagine that could possibly work, given regulatory concerns, and the need to dispose of information that is no longer required, because my belief is that a very small number of categories takes us right back to the "old philosophy" of retaining everything forever.  Perhaps some who sell storage might see that as something desirable for THEM, but I don't believe that it will work for our employers.  The challenge as I see it, and as I have articulated it with the "ILM crowd" (if there is one identifiable such group)....is that Records Managers do not classify records into exceptionally narrow categories because they "want to" or because they are obsessive/compulsive when it comes to detail, but that we are responding to two things: (1) the understanding of such categories by our end-users, and (2) the regulatory needs that exist at local, state, national and international levels.
 
I'd be interested in additional thoughts and comments!!!!  
 
Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+

 

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