Recently a research paper authored by Luciana Duranti titled "Preservation in the Cloud: What will a Trustworthy Preservation Systems Look Like in the Future?" was distributed to the ISO TC/171 SC2 WG11 Trustworthy Storage Sub-system Working group. While this research paper is very well written many issues are not addressed, and as a forensic [...]
How often have you found yourself looking at the PDF on the screen and scratching your head wondering why a word or phrase you are looking at on the monitor or printout just can’t be found in the PDF. Well you are not alone, and in fact very recently EID, Inc. identified the issue during [...]
EID Principal, Robert Blatt and US District Courts, Steve Levenson were presenters at the annual conference for the County Recorders’ Association of California and California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. The seminar participants learned the best strategies to meet the goal for managing and storing of electronic records. One strategy is to implement standard [...]
The authenticity of electronic records is becoming as important as capturing and maintaining electronic content. Questions have been arising in lawsuits and criminal prosecutions about whether electronic records are reliable and trustworthy.
Records out of control? Do you have too many electronic copies of one document so you don’t know which version is the latest? You know you want (and need) to fix it, but how do you start? Where to start is actually easy. Begin with an assessment to determine exactly where your records are and [...]
Not every product fits every need. There are niche players; there are large enterprise products; there are small departmental solutions. Know what you need before you ask vendors to provide a quote and bid so you can properly evaluate the solutions.
Drafters of AIIM Recommended Practices -1 (section 5.3.3) and ISO 15801 used the term “Trusted System”, they had more in mind than just the technology driven definition. They envisioned control over the entire environment in which the document/record is created, ingested into and managed throughout the lifecycle, a large part of which is the users.
From a trusted electronic content management professional’s perspective – it may just be one more type of storage media. But, wow, does it come with a host of questions: what are the standards against which DNA that stores media should be measured?
ECM Systems are way more than just a file cabinet for your electronic files. Today almost all of our business documents are created electronically, as well as transmitted, acted upon, edited and stored in an electronic format. In many cases “documents” never reach a physical or paper form – the entire lifecycle is spent in electronic format.
AIIM, ANSI and ISO international standards for trusted systems, time and again the questions from ECM customers were focused in two areas we find the same in the US: 1) how do we start a project to develop an Enterprise-wide content management (ECM) system; and 2) how do we get our employees to embrace ECM technologies?
