OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey makes a great point as usual in his post “Making tracks”:
In recent presentations, I have been suggesting that libraries will need to adopt more archival skills as they manage digital collections and think about provenance, evidential integrity, and context, and that they will also need to adopt more museum perspectives as they [...]
After a little over two years processing, referencing, and cataloging, and hacking at AIP, I’m skipping up to the City That Never Sleeps to join Jay Datema, Josh Greenberg, and company in the NYPL Labs. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t thrilled about this opportunity, and I’m ready to see where my new [...]
The ICA’s Committee of Best Practices and Standards released the first edition of the International Standard for Describing Functions (ISDF). Like much of ICA’s other work in descriptive standards for archives, ISDF is designed to be used in conjunction with established standards such as ISAD(G) and ISAAR(CPF), as well as standards in preparation such as [...]
Amidst this week of notorious hoaxes, Google has launched Google Message Discovery as an enterprise-focused add on for its Google Apps platform. Google Message Discovery goes well beyond a simple and reliable e-mail backup system and provides three key features of interest to records managers:
Content-addressable storage for electronic mail stored immediately upon sending or retrieval
Creating [...]