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 [...]
I just discovered DataPortability.org through Peter Van Garderen’s blog post about it. I was entirely surprised that I’d heard nary a peep about it. Some basic examination (running a WHOIS query on the domain) shows that it’s still a fairly new project. I have to say, though, that I’m entirely impressed. Those involved have given [...]
Today, Nancy Beaumont, Executive Director of the Society of American Archivists, made an announcement on the Archives & Archivists listserv that SAA would no longer retain the first thirteen years of posts from the listserv. During this time the listserv was hosted by Miami University of Ohio, and last September, the list was moved to [...]