Barry Associates 1-Day Workshop

South Carolina Department of Archives and History

October 29, 2002

Outline of Topics:

Important distinctions among enterprise information, documents, records, knowledge, and content management and related records management implications

• Why is it important to make these distinctions?
• Information management vs. information technology
• Information management vs. records management
• Records vs. electronic records
• Enterprise…the adjective
• Knowledge, information, documents and records
• Content vs. information and knowledge management

 

Recordmaking vs. recordkeeping systems

• Risk: major recordmaking systems that aren’t recordkeeping systems
• Options for getting them into line
• How can the 5015.2 RMA standard help?

 

Managing email, websites and all that jazz

• What’s all the fuss about?
• E-communications: beyond email
• Client case study capturing and maintaining email
• Creator vs. computer-based recordness designation
• Metadata
• Website records issues

 

Preparing for new generations of workers, work patterns and technologies; including special post-911 issues

• Demographic changes: who’s coming into the workplace next?
• What technologies are likely to become the major new recordmaking systems that will need to be tamed?
• Combined impact on recordkeeping of 911 and the unveiling dark theater of ENRON, Andersen Consulting, British American Tobacco Australia, WORLDCOM

 

Who should attend

• Information management professionals, including archivists, records managers 
• Information technology professionals
• Librarians, program managers 
• Federal, state and local government officials
• Staff of non-government records repositories (historical societies, churches, museums, colleges and universities)
• Other professionals -- journalists, attorneys, auditors, etc. -- who wants to learn more about electronic records management issues and challenges