RAIN 20091214
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Unique South Asian oral archives go online
Varsity Online
by Helen Mackreath A unique South Asian oral history archive has been put
online for the first time. The collection features more than 300 recordings
of ...<http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/1687>
Archiving Web Shortcuts: Internet Archive Launches 301Works.Org
InfoToday.com
To the rescue comes the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) with its backing
of a new service called 301Works.org (www.301works.org). ...<
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Archiving-Web-Shortcuts-Internet-Archive-Launches-WorksOrg-60049.asp
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Interpreting Future Use Clauses: Law and Ethics
OUPblog - New York,New York,USA
The director in turn donated the interviews to a regional archive and signed
an appropriate release. The archivist, however, was concerned that the
original ...<http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/future-use-clauses/>
Students archive university war stories
Diamondback Online
... of discussions about the book between the University Archives and the
Memorial Chapel, according to librarian and assistant archivist Jason Speck.
...<
http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/students-archive-university-war-stories-1.980238
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Adolf Hitler's war record among hundreds of thousands published online
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
Ancestry.co.uk <http://ancestry.co.uk/> said the records detail the full
military careers of 1.5 million Bavarian soldiers and were originally held
by the Bavarian State Archives. ...<
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6750793/Adolf-Hitlers-war-record-among-hundreds-of-thousands-published-online.html
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New Importance In Metadata Collection
NetworkComputing.com
... opinion vacated an earlier Court of Appeals decision which held that
metadata was not included in the public's right to access public documents.
...<http://www.networkcomputing.com/e-discovery/revisiting-metadata.php>
UI scientist discovers old, rare Charlevoix book
Iowa City Press Citizen
UI received the book sometime in the late 1980s from the state library in
Des Moines when it changed its collection policies, Huttner said. ... <
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20091208/NEWS01/91208012/1079/news01/UI-scientist-discovers-old-rare-Charlevoix-book
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White House unveils open government directive
CNET News
For example, McDermott said she was happy about components of the plan
addressing compliance with records management and Freedom of Information Act
backlogs ...<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10411429-52.html>
Records transfer marks historic milestone
ResourceShelf (blog)
In a 2004 agreement between the Department of Defense and the US archivist,
official military personnel files were deemed permanent records of the
United ...<
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/09/records-transfer-marks-historic-milestone/
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Archivist insists Russia has Hitler skull
UPI.com
9 (UPI) -- An archivist with Russia's Federal Security Service said his
country is in possession of a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull despite a
report to ...<
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/09/Archivist-insists-Russia-has-Hitler-skull/UPI-52011260382695/
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So what is metadata, anyway?
CMSWatch - Silver Spring,MD,USA
Your records manager may want to keep all the metadata together with the
data, as one "document." A developer would often prefer a system to treat
metadata ...<http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1748-So-what-is-metadata,-anyway
>
State Dept. Worker Sentenced for Passport Snooping
PC World
Young had access to official State Department computer databases, including
the Passport Information Electronic Records System (PIERS), which contains
all ...<
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184107/state_dept_worker_sentenced_for_passport_snooping.html
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$6.8M gift allows U of Alaska to back up data
KTUU
by AP FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- A $6.8 million gift from Alaska Communications
System will allow the University of Alaska to back up electronic records
that ...<http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11650036>
0 Steps to Establishing an Effective Email Retention Policy
Datamation
Building a well-planned, enterprise-wide email retention policy helps
establish uniform and consistent rules for all email and electronic records.
...<
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/white_papers/article.php/383302/10-Steps-to-Establishing-an-Effective-Email-Retention-Policy.htm
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mage gallery: A look inside Iron Mountain's Room 48 and The Underground
Computerworld
The mine shafts in Iron Mountain's underground data center are supported
with huge limestone columns. Most limestone mines excavate up to 85% of the
mineral ...<
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141754/Image_gallery_A_look_inside_Iron_Mountain_s_Room_48_and_The_Underground
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County microfilm board links past to present
Daily Kent Stater - Kent,OH,USA
Hence, what do you get with archives? You get institutionalized memory."
Whitney is the director of microfilming and records at the Portage County
Archives ...<
http://www.kentnewsnet.com/news/2009/12/10/News/County.Microfilm.Board.Links.Past.To.Present-3848966.shtml
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IBA staffers worry that decomposing film led to illness
Ha'aretz
The women all worked in sales of archival materials. The women are in their
30s and 40s, were previously healthy and had no family history of similar
...<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134021.html>
Retired bank manager discovered an important historical document
Cotswold Journal - Evesham,England,UK
“It is our intention to make this available to the public and the County
Archive in Gloucester have agreed we can keep the original here in Moreton,”
he ...<
http://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/cjnewspast/4787170.Retired_bank_manager_discovered_an_important_historical_document/
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Paper-based data breaches on the rise
Washington Post (blog)
"Unfortunately, you pay by the pound for shredding these documents, and
that's the best measure we have sometimes." That incident, reportedly
involving the ...<
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/12/paper_data_breaches.html
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Writing security policies using a taxonomy-based approach
SearchSecurity.com
If classifications of data have been established by legal, resulting IT
security policies around data ownership, data classification and data
retention ...<
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid14_gci1375797,00.html
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Deed filing goes tech
Winston-Salem Journal
By Wesley Young | Journal Reporter Attorneys, real-estate agents and title
companies can now file deeds and other real-estate documents with the
Forsyth ...<
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/dec/11/deed-filing-goes-tech/>
17th Century parish record from a Powys church is found
BBC News
It was returned to the church and had now been handed to the archives
department. County archivist with Powys council Catherine Richards said: "It
is ...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8406900.stm>
Analysis: TSA document release show pitfalls of electronic redaction
Computerworld
... said Barry Murphy, an analyst with Murphy Insights, a Boston-based
consultancy specializing in e-discovery, records management, and content
archiving. ...<
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142141/Analysis_TSA_document_release_show_pitfalls_of_electronic_redaction
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Butterfield goes paperless
OnWindows.com
... number without having to physically reach for the file, allowing them to
stay on the phone” says Greg Wilson, head of records management at the bank.
...<
http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/Butterfield-goes-paperless/4325/Default.aspx
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BBC, British Library explore digi archive
Digital Spy
By Andrew Laughlin, Technology Reporter The BBC has joined forces with the
British Library to explore ways to create a new digital archive for content
and ...<
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a190976/bbc-british-library-explore-digi-archive.html
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Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs
Wired News - USA
The TSA manual was not classified but was designated Sensitive Security ...
folks who's job it is to protect documents like this should be prosecuted
yes? ...<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak-2>
Contracts – Are They Worth The Paper They're Written On?
The Sikh Times, UK
Contract terms are classified as either "conditions" or "warranties". There
is also a so-called "intermediate" term which may be either a "condition" or
a ...<http://www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=8257>
E-Discovery Case Analysis Shows No Tolerance for Failures
Compliance Week (subscription) (blog)
Other issues addressed included cost considerations, computer forensics
protocols and experts, preservation and spoliation issues (but not
sanctions) and ...<
http://www.complianceweek.com/blog/aguilar/2009/12/10/e-discovery-case-analysis-shows-no-tolerance-for-failures/
>
Five ways to ensure the success of data migration projects
Search Storage - USA
Regardless of what type of enterprise data storage media you house your data
... They also wanted to cull duplicate records before the migration but ran
out ...<
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/37726-Five-ways-to-ensure-the-success-of-data-migration-projects
>
NT Govt fights National Archive closure
ABC Online - Australia
By Eleni Roussos The Northern Territory Government says it has made a
submission to the Federal Government to stop the National Archives office in
Darwin ...<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/11/2768867.htm>
How to avoid becoming a data leak pariah
ZDNet UK
... arranging the physical destruction of redundant computer drives,
magnetic media and paper records in accordance with a clear data retention
timetable. ...<
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39927704,00.htm>
Summit County's archivists
Summit Daily News - Frisco,CO,USA
by Alex Miller Treasures like old newspapers, maps, letters, clothes and
mining artifacts make up just part of the archive collection at the Summit
...<
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20091212/NEWS/912119984/1078&ParentProfile=1055
>
Sir Roy Strong donates archive to Oxford University
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
Sir Roy Strong, the former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the
Victoria & Albert museum, has donated his personal archive to Oxford ...<
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6803244/Sir-Roy-Strong-donates-archive-to-Oxford-University.html
>
Out of the Dust: Stampless Covers
Madison County Courier
By Robert Betz When I first started doing the archives project, I knew I
would find “Stampless” or “Folded” covers. Any early archive collection
would ...<
http://www.madisoncountycourier.com/madison-county-new-york-news/out-of-the-dust-stampless-covers-8878/
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Old photographs of New Orleans becomes a new book
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
The found crate, however, yielded several hundred glass negatives capturing
the everyday life of New Orleanians in the early 20th century that were
donated ...<
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20091213/LIFESTYLE/912130317/Old-photographs-of-New-Orleans-becomes-a-new-book
>
Award goes to history evangelist
The News Journal
Instead his mother, Louise, told him it was time to go to work and showed
him an ad for a job in the state archives, and the rest is history. ... <
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091214/OPINION03/912140301/1004/OPINION/Award+goes+to+history+evangelist
>
Board-game entrepreneur tests Christmas market with medieval history
Deutsche Welle - Bonn,Germany
Board game creator Horst Rokitte has a unique strategy to hop on the
bandwagon: He dove into the city archives and came up with a game based on
the real ...<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5002912,00.html>
IBM Helps the Egyptian Government Preserve National Archives
PR Newswire (press release)
The whole process is automated helping the NAE to more easily locate files
and decrease the time required to access them from one day to ten minutes.
...<
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-helps-the-egyptian-government-preserve-national-archives-79216277.html
>
Making new discoveries about old days
Toronto Star
Whitby town archivist Brian Winter, at his office in the public library,
says unearthing history is like assembling the pieces of a giant jigsaw
puzzle. ...<
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/localhistory/article/738341--making-new-discoveries-about-old-days
>
Egypt puts archives on Web to boost Arabic content
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has begun making its national archives digitally
available on the Internet in Arabic, having last month registered the
world's first ...<
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BD40420091214?type=technologyNews>
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
Houston Chronicle
But the public might not see any of the e-mails for quite some time because
they will now go through the National Archives normal process for releasing
...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6769689.html>
Tabloids' online archives provide a fascinating insight into social history
guardian.co.uk
When newspapers began to digitise their archives for web access, it seemed
that the a version of the hierarchy had hung on: it started with the
Guardian and ...<
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/14/dailyexpress-national-newspapers
>
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