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Archives NZ issues Appraisal Framework

Archives New Zealand has issued a document setting out the basis of its Appraisal Framework. It sets out the future direction for identifying records that should be retained as public archives and records that should be destroyed once business and other requirements have been met.

Digital overhaul of Vatican archiving project

NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, has been selected to overhaul the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output of 6,000 manuscripts, is intended to digitally archive all manuscripts preserved in the Library, amounting to some 82,000 specimens and 41 million pages.

Going for gold with ECM at Commonwealth Games

When Megan Cappelleri was appointed Manager Information Management for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC), she was certain she had just landed her dream job

In 2014, Knowledge Management is an oxymoron!

Knowledge can’t be managed. Knowledge is everywhere, buried in the confines of the organisation, within stovepipes of systems and silos, but also woven in the minds of people. In fact, it is people not systems who possess knowledge and decide on its relevance according to the context of what they are working on.

Iron Mountain to protect new top-level domains

Starting soon, new domain names will flood the Internet, changing how companies list themselves and how consumers find them online. In late January, the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures – went live and many more such as .bid, .science and .pub are expected to follow, as companies look to expand their presence on the Internet. Iron Mountain escrow protection has been chosen to protect the data for more than 70 percent of all new gTLDs.

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