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Digital works bring Library of Congress, Hollywood together
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Archival management company BMS/Chase and recording industry giants
such as Sony BMG Universal and EMI Group to standardize the approach to
storing mtadata ...<http://www.fcw.com/article103454-08-08-07-Web>
Websites could be required to retain visitor info
Register - London,England,UK
The problem for most companies in developing or maintaining a document
retention/destruction policy is identifying the documents and records it
wants to ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/08/litigation_data_retention/>
It's My Job: Research historian
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
She can spend hours researching time periods; for the Revolutionary War,
she went to the State Archives and read old letters. "I learned how to
read 18th ...
<http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=269333>
Booming Market of Antiques
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
It is rumoured that Western, especially American scholars, have been
taking away original records from the National as well as State
Archives after ...
<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=13482>
New Minnesota Data Retention Law Creates Potential Liability For ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
The new law also imposes liability on merchants for the data retention
practices of their service providers. Any merchant that accepts credit
or debit card ... <http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=51174>
Official at the Smithsonian Resigns After Meeting Transcript Is ...
New York Times - United States
By ROBIN POGREBIN A high-ranking official has resigned from the
Smithsonian Institution after acknowledging that he destroyed a
transcript from an important ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/arts/design/09smit.html?ref=arts>
Carbon Capital Markets chooses Iron Mountain to safeguard data
ComputerworldUK - UK
By Ellie Harries Carbon Capital Markets, the carbon emissions trader,
has signed a three-year backup and recovery contract with Iron Mountain
Digital for an
...<http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/servers-data-centre/busines
s-continuity/news/index.cfm?newsid=4513>
SPECIAL REPORT: Testimony from the Ridder Trial, Part II: On ...
Editor & Publisher - USA
Q When you said "I can't tell you to shred that - the documents," is it
your understanding that he was contemplating shredding or otherwise
destroying the ...
<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1
003623729>
Search firms compete to protect data
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... to delete old user data, remove personal information from stored
search records and even give users the option of having all search
records deleted. ...<http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_6580232>
National Data Breach Notification Debate Heats Up
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
"Leveraging a layered security model, organizations should be required
to protect consumer information -- social security numbers, PINs ,
credit card ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20131108
8>
Museum renovations continue
Journal Newspapers - Wayne,MI,USA
The city is currently looking for an archivist, too, to help put things
in order. Officials have sent out a request for qualifications for
interested
...<http://www.journalgroup.com/Wayne/5637/museum-renovations-continue>
Looting fear as Iraqi state library seized
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"They have turned our national archive into a military target," he
said."Tomorrow or the day after, the extremists will attack the Iraqi
forces there.
...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2145707,00.html>
Iraqi National Library chief warns military raids threaten ...
International Herald Tribune - France
AP BAGHDAD: The Iraqi National Library's director appealed to the US and
Iraqi militaries on Thursday to leave his books and archives out of the
fight, ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/09/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Library.php
>
Trillium grant results in professional, accessible archives
Northumberland Today - Cobourg,Ontario,Canada
Over the next two years, the $30000 grant will effect changes that will
make the society's archives more professional and more accessible. ...
<http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contenti
d=646538&catname=Local%20News&classif=>
Harmony Historian Unearths Pictures From 1907
Jamestown Post Journal - Jamestown,NY,USA
By NICHOLAS L. DEAN 8/10/2007 - HARMONY -- Having recently unearthed
glass negatives from 1907, Teresa Johnson, Harmony town historian, now
needs help naming
...<http://post-journal.com/articles.asp?articleID=18430>
Protecting Intellectual Property & Assets
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
In this information age, as business value continues to accrue to
"soft" assets such as business processes, trade secrets, and know-how
and away from
...<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2932
/31p32/31p32.asp&guid=>
Public may soon get to see court records from area's pioneer days
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Now that the documents are ready, archivist Bill Popp says, the St.
Charles County Historical Society has a more complete set of records
that will be easy
...<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stcharles/story/8D5
CEA7FA4889E56862573330015A807?OpenDocument>
NBC News Opens Archives to Schools
MEDIAWEEK - USA
NBC News will open its 60 years of TV news archives and made it
available to schools systems under a new partnership with HotChalk, a
Web-learning community ...
<http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/networktv/article_display.jsp?vnu_conte
nt_id=1003624320>
Iraq National Library and Archives raided
Information World Review - London,UK
By Daniel Griffin 09 Aug 2007 Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq
National Library and Archive (INLA) has warned the facility was
yesterday "broken into
...<http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2196305/iraq-natio
nal-library-archives>
Venezuela was given access to the British archives
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
The two governments agreed that Britain give Venezuela access to its
archives to allow them to look for evidence to back their claim. ...
<http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_letters?id=56526451>
The Wall Street Journal's Irresponsible -- And Dangerous -- Attack ...
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA
That makes it easier for a wily hacker to intercept files during their
travels." -- From the section "How To Search For Your Work Documents
From Home":
...<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/the_wall_st
reet.html>
Fire shows need to back up digital public records
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
Biometrics, public records, and on-line public services such as tax
payment and zoning requests are all in evolutional stages within local
and state
...<http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-bachenberg8-9.59850
22aug09,0,2127113.story>
Focus On: E-mail management and archiving
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... by e-mail archiving in other business domains in an attempt to
affect document and information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies
beyond e-mail. ...
<http://www.infostor.com/display_article/303100/23/ARTCL/Display/none/Foc
us-On:-E-mail-management-and-archiving-/>
Bob Brooks's photographic portrait of Africville now online
Nova News Now - New Minas,Nova Scotia,Canada
"This outstanding collection of photographs captures the spirit of
Africville in a way that speaks directly to the viewer," said
provincial archivist Brian
...<http://www.novanewsnow.com/article-128495-Bob-Brookss-photographic-po
rtrait-of-Africville-now-online.html>
Firms plan for 100-year data storage
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
One survey respondent said, "When using a digital archive, understand
that you will have a long, hard, expensive road to keep the records.
...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/10/226140/firms-plan-for-
100-year-data-storage.htm>
Breathtaking Look At Building Of American City
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
In addition to the City Archives' photographs, several current-day
photographs will be exhibited alongside their historic counterparts to
fully display the
...<http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18685728&BRD=2737&PAG=
461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6>
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Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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