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.
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.
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
UK pet owners can be confident if Fido or Fluffy comes to grief their claims will be settled rapidly, following the installation of a document scanning solution at Agria Pet Insurance to streamline the whole process of managing claims. Last year 75,000 claims were received with £20 million paid out to British customers insuring their cats and dogs.
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.
The standard police practice of using a line-up to help identify a criminal could become a thing of the past, if a new voice biometrics solution designed for use in forensic and criminal investigations from Nuance Communications takes off. The new tool, Nuance Forensics, employs patented voice biometrics technology to assist in confirming or denying the identity of individuals based on audio files that are used during investigations.
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.
There are plenty of scare stories around about what will happen in the aftermath of withdrawal for support of Microsoft Windows XP on April 8, 201. Undoubtedly, some people won’t manage to migrate their systems in time. Are the dangers significant or are the risks over-hyped?
An increasingly common questions that we hear working in the area of document and records management is “What do we do about the Cloud?” Although most of our customers are deploying SharePoint and RecordPoint in a traditional ‘on premises’ configuration, increasingly we are being asked about Cloud options.
With privacy breaches and security threats making headlines around the world on a daily basis, it’s becoming increasingly obvious to most enterprises that the personal information and sensitive data they hold is an extremely valuable commodity. Whether its personally identifiable information (PII), private health information (PHI), financial data, contract information, research and trade secrets, intellectual property or contract data (and this list could go on and on), this kind of information has become a new kind of “currency” – and some have even called personal information the new “oil”.
