RAIN 20080416
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Media Outlets Sue NC Gov. Over E-Mails
The Associated Press -
Mike Easley on Monday, accusing his administration of violating the state's
public records law through the "systematic deletion, destruction or
concealment" ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4WDIA2l6kDC6ux1IjRftbqsVX3gD9021MIO0>
Bankrupt hospital's bookkeeper tracks records
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA
The Dubois County Health Department was notified of the record-destruction
plan April 4, as were state and federal agencies. LaPlante said he is
seeking the ...
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Preservation agency picks Grimes to be new director
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
Jennifer Tirey, who has been acting IHPA director, will return to her
position as deputy director at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum.
<http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/28676.asp>
A Bad Week for Corporate Spies
Center for Media and Democracy - Madison,WI,USA
Even "non-confidential documents can reveal plenty about a group's
activities when combined with other data," she warned. "Stolen files can
give insight ...
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/7208>
NS Archives adds digitized newsmagazine reports on tragedy
Globe and Mail - Canada
Several issues of The Sphere and The Daily Graphic have been given to the
Archives by private donors in the past year. Provincial archivist Brian
Speirs ...
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Washington Post - United States
By Matt Schudel Leonard A. Rapport, a leading archivist of records
documenting the American Revolution and co-author of a celebrated book
about paratroopers ...
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Has SNIA's XAM missed the ILM target?
IT-Director.com - USA
Some of us interested in full information lifecycle management (ILM) have
long pointed to a need for an industry standard format for metadata that
describes ...
<http://www.it-director.com/business/compliance/content.php?cid=10403>
Employees' use of flash disks put companies at risk
One Stop Click - London,UK
Employees are increasingly putting their companies at risk by bringing in
personal flash drives, according to a data storage expert. ...
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NS Archives updates records on Titanic sinking with digitized reports
The Canadian Press - HALIFAX
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is updating its
Titanic file by digitizing the content of two British newsmagazines
published in April ...
<http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwD1Ar7qXD-8tFNlCxVX92AyOqAQ>
Guarding the freedom of information act
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Indonesia will have the law on access to public information several weeks
after the House of Representatives (DPR) passed the bill on April 3. ...
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Council approves new records management system
Tehachapi News - Tehachapi,CA,USA
Tehachapi City Council has approved the purchase of a new software system
to scan and index city documents to replace the old DataNet system now in
use. ...
<http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/ViewPost/55919>
Oracle Adds Email Archiving
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
"There is an adapter for linking to our Universal Records Management system
for unstructured data. The value is that the system is federated, allowing
you ...
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http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=151040&f_src=byteandswitch_gnews
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Titanic file getting digital update in NS
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management is updating its
Titanic file by digitizing the content of two British newsmagazines
published in April ...
<http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9006286.html>
County town row grows
Journal Live - Newcastle upon Tyne,UK
The county town was defined by the senior archivist at Kew. "He made it
quite clear what constituted the county town. He made it quite clear that
Alnwick ...
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How to spot -- and stop -- a spy
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Mary Brandel April 14, 2008 (Computerworld) Corporations are woefully
unprepared to counter attempts at corporate espionage, say experts who
perform ...
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High Court hit like clockwork
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Later, with armed police in the High Court building, investigators trooped
out carrying evidence bags holding documents, arch-lever files and brown ...
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Thief rips pages from rare books
BBC News - UK
A thief posed as a student to steal centuries-old documents about the
origins of the Catholic church in Scotland worth thousands of pounds. ...<
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7348398.stm>
Recording Everything a Trend for Workers
PC World - USA
Sixty percent of knowledge workers in the US, UK, and Australia will have
effectively stopped deleting documents, e-mails, audio, and video files from
their ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144570-c,softwareservices/article.html>
New York Times
*SCIENCE * | April 15, 2008
*In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic's Doom *
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
A team of scientists has uncovered new evidence that the ship's builder used
substandard rivets and rushed the project.
<http://tinyurl.com/6bq3sm>
Tesla Motors sues competitor alleging theft of trade secrets
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... that makes electric cars, has filed suit against a competing company and
its founders alleging they stole trade secrets to design a competing
vehicle. ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_8935927>
Electric car maker Tesla sues designer
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Tesla paid Fisker nearly $800000 and gave him access to its trade secrets,
business plan and proprietary engineering data developed during production
of its ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla16apr16,1,3150255.story>
Love the data: Resolve to keep better crop records
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier - Charleston,IL,USA
By SHARON KUHNS Most farmers enjoy farming much more than record keeping.
But, they also know that accurate and complete records are useful in
enterprise ...
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Pittsburgh papers sues WVU over FOIA requests about Manchin's daughter
West Virginia Record - Charleston,WV,USA
WVU "has repeatedly failed to respond timely to a series of FOIA requests,"
"has withheld public records that are responsive to the Post-Gazette's
requests ...
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News agencies sue governor over e-mails
University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel - Chapel Hill,NC,USA
Rick Thames, editor of plaintiff The Charlotte Observer, said it is
problematic that under state law government employees are authorized to
delete e-mails ...
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Mid-Sized Businesses and the Quest for Compliance
E-Commerce Times – USA
Mid-market businesses often hold their breath and hope that auditors will
not show up at their doors checking compliance levels on electronic records
...
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E-mail request exposes problem
The Mississippi Press - gulflive.com - Pascagoula,MS,USA
Electronic records pose the greatest threat to the public's access to
records. Besides refusing to hand over the records, officials can demand
exorbitant ...
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PSC again says SCANA can't have documents in probe
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The company came back with an open-records request asking for, among other
things, communication between PSC staff and Georgia Natural Gas on GNG's
business ...
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http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/04/15/psc_0416.html
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Archives house symbols of outreach
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition - Blacksburg,VA,USA
These offices started to consolidate the databases into one that is now
being used for organizing and displaying the archives. Beecher worked
closely with ...
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http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/04/16/archives_house_symbols_of_outreach
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A look inside the April 16th archives at Virginia Tech
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
"Just a staggering amount of people are sending wishes and condolences
and thoughts of various kinds to our community here," says University
Archivist ...
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Archivists seeking more records from former NY governor
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
Fifteen months after leaving office, Pataki has handed over press releases
and files relating to legislation but not letters and e-mails, state
archivist ...
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13 London councils lose data in last year
PC Pro - London,UK
Using the Freedom of Information Act, Radio 5 Live was able to release
records on the latest in a strong of government data losses. 23 councils
responded to ...
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/187833/13-london-councils-lose-data-in-last-year.html
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County to offer historical society artifacts
La Vista Sun - Papillion,Ne,USA
By Kris Byars WAHOO - Before the county auctions off the former Saunders
Medical Center facilities, the Saunders County Historical Society will have
the ...
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New Self-Destructing Instant Messaging Technology That Provides ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
The time for self-destruction is set by the sender, and can be set to
disappear in as little as a few seconds to over an hour. The sender can also
choose a ...<
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0387380.htm>
Protecting against data theft
ITWeb - Gauteng,South Africa
Trade secrets as well as personal and financial data are worth large amounts
of money and companies must protect themselves and their data from these ...
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0804151240.asp?A=VIR&S=Virus%20Watch&O=FPPN
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McBride documents stolen from court
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
According to De Beer, they also made off with the laptop of advocate Deon
van Wyk, who is working on the heist case, and some of his personal
documents. ...
<http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=749803>
UVa laptop stolen, had sensitive data
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
By Brian McNeill A laptop stolen from a University of Virginia employee
contained sensitive information about more than 7000 students, staff and
faculty ...
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http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/uva_laptop_stolen_had_sensitive_data/17976/
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City to probe Stefani's computer
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Often, electronic forensic experts can find copies of destroyed documents
on a computer. The text messages, first published in January, ...
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Safety fears rise after second court hit
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
The documents targeted included the docket for the high-profile R46-million
FNB cash-depot robbery two years ago. Court records for Ekurhuleni police
chief ...
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080416053715608C258360
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State agencies ill-prepared for security breaches
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
The state's ability to protect confidential data, including taxpayers'
Social Security numbers, has come into focus since two high-profile
breaches earlier ...
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DMV staffer accused of forging licenses for illegal immigrants
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
In the warrant filed in Sacramento Superior Court, Moseby is accused of
manipulating computer records so he could authorize the phony duplicates.
...<http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/865365.html>
Detroit City Council Seeks Computer Records
WDIV - Detroit,MI,USA
DETROIT -- The Detroit City Council's attorney said he doesn't expect a
whistle-blowers' lawyer to oppose a search of his computer for documents.
...<http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15899079/detail.html
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