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From: Marc Wolfe
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 09:48
Subject: Re: Fwd: [RM] Barry survey follow up/query: "Overcoming Barriers" (electronic records)
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From: "Maarja Krusten 2" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Jan 16, 2018 3:39 AM
Subject: [RM] Barry survey follow up/query: "Overcoming Barriers" (electronic records)
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Cc:

During December 2004-January 2006, ARM specialist Richard E. (Rick) Barry
of Barry Associates surveyed records professionals and users on Electronic
Records Working Group Reports in what he called a pro bono survey on
"Overcoming Barriers to Major Users in Accessing Electronic Records."
Rick, who worked as an expert on a number of working groups in Washington,
then posted occasionally to this List, He and I discussed interdisciplinary
communications here at times.

Two questions, with some context first,

[snip irrelevancies]

My questions are:

1.  Is anyone still in contact with Rick Barry?  As you can see from his
bio (click on About Rick on the left menu at link above), he started
working on IT issues in 1960.  He had extensive military experience
(including in Vietnam and with CINCPAC communications and command and
control initiatives) and civilian experience working on computer,
information and records issues. He continued doing consulting work on ARM
issues after retiring.  He well may now be truly retired (we stayed in
touch until about ten years ago).  Does anyone have publicly available
email information for him?  (I only have the email he used as a List
subscriber in 2005).  Or if you are in contact with him, would you ask him
to contact me at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>?

He's listed in the white pages.

2.  Rick's 2004-2005 survey had a wide-reaching intent although as he
noted, he saw few links to it at ARM or historian listservs or other online
forums.  (I helped him publicize it in a couple of history forums.)  The
release of the survey over the holidays might have been a factor in
response rates. I value Rick's efforts and remain very interested in
interdisciplinary communications, cross cutting issues, and data
collection.

Do List members know of anyone *outside the Federal government* who has
surveyed impacts or otherwise assessed the records life cycle as it affects
creators of records, records managers, It professionals, information
security officials, archivists, and internal and external users of records,
including academic, corporate, and government historians?

I'm especially interested in holistic overviews of actions with records and
information where I can trace person A in an organization did this, B
reacted to their job requirements with this, which had this impact on C,
which affected D this way.  And on through operational choices (and when
those existed, strategic and tactical choices) that affect the records life
cycle.  More so than looking separately at narrower, functional specific
assessments. I'm especially interested in hearing from any RMs or
archivists who have had professional opportunities to do such assessments
holistically throughout the records life cycle, including the effect on
institutional knowledge impacts.

I have a good sense of the focus and work of attorneys and corporate
counsel and am looking primarily for holistic assessments of the work with
records and infoirmation of the other stakeholders I listed.  I'm
interested in any such comprehensive analysis done recently or now, while
recognizing more will be done retrospectively as well, as impacts up and
down the line throughout the life cycle become even more visible.

Nope.

Thanks in advance,

You're welcome.






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