Sir Robert (Bob) Menzies, the 12th and longest serving Prime Minister of Australia, once said, “Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.” However Menzies’ place in posterity has since been assured, and all of his many speeches to parliament will soon be just a click away to all Internet users at the completion of a massive project by The SEMA Group to digitise all pre-1980 Hansard documents.
Images from the the Dorothy Pelzer collection are being made more widely accessible via a Cumulus Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform used by the ISEAS library to handle a growing multimedia collection.
A three-year project to put SharePoint 2007 and TRIM at the heart of an integrated records and information system for over 750 staff at The Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy is nearing completion.
The move towards activity-based funding as part of national health reform in Australia will put a spotlight on data quality, as hospitals receive funding based on the number and type of cases they treat. A similar regime is also on the horizon in Canada, where the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is charged with ensuring the quality of health care data. We asked CIHI Consultant Heather Richards, to highlight the data quality issues to be faced.
Basware has announced a partnership agreement with Ricoh New Zealand to deliver electronic invoicing and procurement solutions to enterprises and small-to-medium sized businesses in New Zealand.
Data warehousing giant Teradata is moving to bolster its capabilities for dealing with structured and unstructured data by acquiring analytics specialist Aster Data Systems.
AvePoint has announced that Perth Microsoft solutions specialist DSC-IT has become a value-added reseller, and both companies will work together in Western Australia.
Australia’s Public Record Office Victoria has certified the Laserfiche enterprise content management (ECM) platform against all five specifications of the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) Standard.
National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) veteran Dave McGrouther is joining Australia’s DAMsmart, the audiovisual digitisation agency, to head up their Film Services Division.
