RAIN 20090814
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
'Roger Williams Deed' moved to state archives
Providence Journal
To which Cicilline countered this week: “The council has had a hundred
years to study the archive. It can take another hundred years, if it
wants....
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http://www.projo.com/news/content/ROGER_WILLIAMS_DEED_08-08-09_USFAG0P_v15.36f6dd3.html
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Rediscovering the forgotten who lived in Kalaupapa exile
Honolulu Advertiser
It took months of work at the Hawai'i State Archives and the help of Ka
'Ohana O Kalaupapa, a nonprofit that helps Kalaupapa patients, to find the
rest of
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http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090808/NEWS01/908080329/Rediscovering+the+forgotten+who+lived+in+Kalaupapa+exile
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State archives add two new collections
The Desert Sun
The California Secretary of State added detailed guides to two state
archives collections to make searches easier, state officials announced
today. ...<
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090803/NEWS10/90803019/0/NEWS07/State-archives-add-two-new-collections
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Exploding the data storage myth
FCW.com
If data has enduring value to the agency, records managers should handle it
properly so that the data will be retained for a justified time period and
then ...<http://fcw.com/articles/2009/08/10/comment-sprehe.aspx>
Web Archiving Service Preserves Data for the Future
ResourceShelf
This new tool enables faculty, researchers and librarians to capture,
curate and preserve Web sites, thus creating permanent archives available
to ...<
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/08/web-archiving-service-preserves-data-for-the-future/
>
16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap
TechCrunch
Flyupload allows you to store, access, share and backup your digital
documents, photographs, and music easily with complete privacy online. ...
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/16-apps-that-make-sharing-large-files-a-snap/
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Hurting Ohio historical society sells off old cars
Newsday
August 8, 2009 By AP CLEVELAND (AP) —A cash-strapped Ohio historical
society is angering some auto buffs by selling off antique cars to balance
its budget. ...<
http://www.newsday.com/hurting-ohio-historical-society-sells-off-old-cars-1.1357332
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Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover fallout
The Associated Press
According to the Air Force One documents released through the Freedom of
Information Act, a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air
Force ...<
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jxWrQTG834rUTvAFOYXCGLNJ-zWQD99VSGNO0
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State wants its stuff back
SunJournal.com - Lewiston,ME,USA
Archivists and others who work for the state aren't surfing eBay or other
auction sites on a regular basis, but every once in a while someone will doa
...
<http://www.sunjournal.com/node/81380>
Archivists seek new, safe home for Bluffton's treasures
Hilton Head Island Packet - Hilton Head Island,SC,USA
Ann Elliott, a member of the society who Richards calls a local archivist,
said the collection began to serve as a resource for researchers, to
promote and ...<http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/929968.html>
Vermont puts old maps online
SunJournal.com
But now a good bit of that diligent research and preparation is being done
by State Archivist Gregory Sanford and his staff. "Some of these records
may be ...<http://www.sunjournal.com/node/102033>
Acacia Subsidiary Acquires a Patent for Records Management Technology
Business Wire (press release)
... Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTG) announced today that its subsidiary, Acacia
Patent Acquisition LLC, has acquired a patent for records management
technology. ...<http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20090810005447/en>
NZ e-records bill could be US$300m
Stuff.co.nz <http://stuff.co.nz/> - Wellington,New Zealand
A nationwide electronic health records system will cost at least US$300
million (NZ$447m), according to one of the world's largest health software
providers ...<
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2734004/NZ-e-records-bill-could-be-US-300m
>
Ohio Historical Society's executive director dies
Columbus Dispatch
William K. Laidlaw Jr., executive director of the Ohio Historical Society,
has died, the society announced today. He was 66. Laidlaw apparently
suffered a ...<
http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/09/laidlaw_web.html?sid=101
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Benefits of E-mail Archiving
TMCnet
Whether they admit it or not, more and more employees are using their
mailboxes as filing cabinets for data storage, taking up space on the
e-mail server ...<
http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/email-archiving/articles/61696-benefits-e-mail-archiving.htm
>
Treasury's ute mail trawl
The Australian
Microsoft Exchange and storage experts said monitoring data storage to
ensure it did not hit its limit was a basic function of any email
administrator. ...<
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25910724-15306,00.html>
Communist secret files continue to haunt day-to-day life - Feature
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
When the shredders jammed, Stasi officers began simply tearing the paper by
hand. To this day, employees of the federal office for the Stasi records
are at ...<
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/280788,communist-secret-files-continue-to-haunt-day-to-day-life--feature.html
>
E-Mail Violations the Focus ...
InternetNews.com - New York,NY,USA
By Alex Goldman: More stories by this author: Companies have become very
serious about their data retention policies and use of corporate assets,...
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http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3833821/EMail+Violations+the+Focus+of+Security+Concerns.htm
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Whatever happened to the paperless office, anyway?
Globe and Mail
... that future office desks would include a “TV-display terminal with
keyboard” that could call up reams of documents, files, mail and
messages. ...<
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/whatever-happened-to-the-paperless-office-anyway/article1247144/
>
Historians looking to the future
Financial Times
But after working with Churchill's wartime papers - via a spell in
Unilever's archive - that is what she ended up doing, at Boots. ...
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1f7a5704-860e-11de-98de-00144feabdc0.html>
US Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
Washington Post
In a May 28 letter responding to EPIC's public records request, Zachariah
I. Miller, a GSA presidential management fellow, said ". ...<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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US judge denies Goldman motion on ex-programmer
Reuters
N) to quash a request for personnel information on a former computer
programmer accused of stealing trade secrets from the firm. ...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews/idUSN1048048720090810
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The unknown tomb of the soldier, found at last
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Now, archivists at a Canadian university have helped them unravel a
95-year-old mystery. "It's been a talking point in the regiment for years,"
said Pipe ...<
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-unknown-tomb-of-the-soldier-found-at-last/article1247577/
>
e-Discovery Policy Could Have Stopped Steroid Leaks
InformationWeek
Upon learning this, we concluded, of course, that it would be improper to
proceed with the destruction of the materials. So in fact the MLBPA had
eight days ...<
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/08/ediscovery_poli.html
>
10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets
ReadWriteWeb
The Archivist: A Desktop Tool for Archiving Searches The Archivist is a
Windows desktop software application built by members of Microsoft's Mix
Online team ...<
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_your_tweets.php>
Digital continuity action plan launched today
An action plan to stop important digital public records being lost was today
launched by the Minister Responsible for Archives New Zealand Nathan Guy.
<http://continuum.archives.govt.nz/digital-continuity-action-plan.html>
Data has become too distributed to secure, Forrester says
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
IT security professionals have to consider more than just data encryption,
Whiteley said. Data retention policies, data retrieval, data classification
and ...<
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1364294,00.html
>
US Bares 'Alien Files' Kept on Immigrants
New York Times
At present, members of the public typically gain access to the documents,
known as the Alien Files, by submitting a Freedom of Information Act
request. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12archives.html>
Computer problems tie up secretary of state's business records
Marshall News Messenger
As as result, people cannot obtain certified copies of state documents,
file documents such as those necessary to incorporate a business or search
an online ...<
http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/2009/08/12/0812sos.html
>
Electronic Health Records: Facing the Issues
Law.com
... employ electronic trading; federal and state taxpayers increasingly
e-file their returns; and attorneys e-file pleadings and federal court
documents. ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202432957427&Electronic_Health_Records_Facing_the_Issues
>
Accounting For Twitter and Web 2.0 From a Legal Perspective
Chicago Tech News - Chicago,IL,USA
To the extent your organization embraces these technologies, incorporate
them into your document retention policies. Develop and implement
methodologies to ...<
http://chicagotechnews.com/electronic-discovery-with-jason-fliegel/accounting-for-twitter-and-web-2-0-from-a-legal-perspective
>
Chinese-born engineer convicted of espionage
Los Angeles Times
... the Justice Department has prosecuted more than 50 defendants accused
of illicit exports of restricted technology to China, theft of trade
secrets for ...<
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-espionage-verdict17-2009jul17,0,3800058.story
>
United States: E-Discovery: Who Pays The Freight?
Mondaq News Alerts (Registration) - London,UK
While FRCP 34 was amended in 2006 such that a demanding party may state the
form for materials to be produced, Judge Harrington believed that a demand
to ...<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=84626>
Archiving has nothing to do with 'Dusty Vaults'
Techworld.com - London,UK
Don't scoff, but archiving is one of the technologies that underlines the
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) dream. The vision may have become a
little ...<
http://features.techworld.com/storage/3904/archiving-has-nothing-to-do-with-dusty-vaults/
>
Town loses 8th clerk in two years after scolding
Sun-Sentinel.com
"I did some record management," she said, pointing to stacks of
regulation-sized file boxes once crammed with legal documents. "Please
don't think that I am ...
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/deerfield/sfl-fldffclerk0813dffaug13,0,1888220.story
>
Alaska: Private E-Mail Ruling
New York Times
... or to document a public agency's operation or organization, and that
current open-records law does not specifically deal with private e-mail.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/us/13brfs-PRIVATEEMAIL_BRF.html>
Duped by Data Deduplication
Data Center Journal
The number one offender for high deduplication costs and wasted data
storage is not production data, but backed up copies of data. ...
<http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3091/40/>
Former volunteer archivist was 'wealth of information'
Catholic Courier
... the seams with dust-covered books and papers, said Bob Vogt, who last
spring retired from his volunteer position as associate archivist for the
diocese. ...<http://www.catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=77&articleid=108402
>
Leibovitz Creditor Sues Getty for Interference
Photo District News
Leibovitz put up her archives (prints and negatives) as well as her studio
and two residences as collateral in exchange for a $24 million loan. ...
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http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i2e9044066d727a1a50958d2e2484126b
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Staffing your ediscovery team
IDM.net.au <http://idm.net.au/>
The legal team will be responsible for preparing a data retention policy
and litigation hold policy. These go hand in hand. A good litigation hold
policy ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=17034>
How long is long-term storage?
CNET News
... digital storage for decades have little confidence in their ability to
do long-term digital preservation, you shouldn't have much confidence
either. ...<http://news.cnet.com/8301-21546_3-10309283-10253464.html>
Officials Concerned About Records Preservation Program
WFPL
Some recent disasters are drawing attention to a 25-year old program aimed
at protecting and preserving Kentucky's treasure trove of public documents.
...<
http://www.wfpl.org/2009/08/13/officials-concerned-about-records-preservation-program/
>
UofL plans to create archive of flood records
Kentucky.com
AP LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The University of Louisville wants to create a record
of the recent flood in the city and on much of the campus. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/895138.html>
Tired of Paying for PACER Docs? Princeton Group Offers Alternative
ABA Journal
As some users unhappy about the cost of the PACER (short for Public Access
to Court Electronic Records) system lobby for changes, others are
developing ...
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http://www.abajournal.com/news/tired_of_paying_for_pacer_docs_princeton_group_offers_alternative/
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Apple accuses Psystar of destroying evidence
Inquirer
The legal term for destroying evidence sought by an opposing party in the
discovery phase of a civil lawsuit is 'spoiliation'. Courts take an
extremely dim ...<
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1529255/apple-accuses-psystar-destroying-evidence
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