By Angela Ossar, Government Information Analyst If you’re like me, you leave almost every conference with your head spinning and a to-do list so long that you have to create a separate list just to organize that list. (And if you’re like me, you may or may not have a running Google Doc called “Planning…
Call for Presentations: e-Records Conference 2013 – Austin, TX Theme: Transitioning to Electronic Processes We are currently accepting presentation proposals from state government organizations, vendors and subject matter experts from various organizations to share both their challenges and successes with managing electronic records. This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC)…
This is the seventh and final post of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Presentations from the E-Records Forum are available on the NAGARA website. As a government employee, I am familiar with the Texas Open Meetings Act (TOMA). However my job responsibilities do not require me to be directly involved with…
This is the fifth post of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Presentations from the E-Records Forum are available on the NAGARA website. Do you worry that you lack sufficient e-records and digital preservation training? Wondered where to get training, or where to find new professionals with the kind of training you…
This is the fourth post of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Presentations from the E-Records Forum are available on the NAGARA website. Before it was even 20 years old, the original, legacy email system at UT Austin was ready to retire. It was slow, didn’t have room to store much, and…
This is the third post of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. This year two speakers from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) came to speak about high performance computers (also called supercomputers) and how they might be useful in records management. Stampede On the first day of the conference, Dr. Bill…
This is the second post in a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. One of the major differences I’ve noticed between the archives field and the records management field is the relative lack of standards in the former and an abundance of standards in the latter. However, because digital records need to be…
This is the first of a multi-part recap of the 2013 NAGARA E-Records Forum. Those of you who have been reading this blog for some time may have seen previous articles regarding President Obama’s Memorandum on Records Management and the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA’s) Directive for federal record keeping. Although these recent developments…