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RAIN 02/09: electronic archiving



New York Times 02/08/01
Internet age becomes the Dark Age
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/technology/08POWE.html

by Katie Hafner
BERKELEY, Calif. - When David Drake, an engineering manager in Escondido,
Calif., saw his monthly electric bill climb to more than $600 recently, he
took action. He turned off 7 of the 10 computers he had been running
constantly in his house and cut back on operating his pool filter. He and
his wife, Ginny, replaced their 13-year-old water heater with a more
energy-efficient one, and they ordered double-paned windows with a special
energy-efficient coating. Mr. Drake estimates that they cut their energy
consumption by nearly 20 percent.


New York Times 02/08/01
In tapping Net, F.B.I. insists privacy is not a victim
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/technology/08CARN.html

by John Schwartz
QUANTICO, Va. -- AS long as there have been law enforcement agents, they
have tried to listen in on what the bad guys are planning.
In early times, that meant standing next to a window in the evesdrope, the
place where water from the eaves drips, to overhear conversations. As
communications went electronic, eavesdropping did, too: Gen. Jeb Stuart
hired a tapper to intercept telegraph messages in the Civil War. And by the
1890's, two decades after Alexander Graham Bell's first call to Watson, the
first known telephone wiretaps by the police were in place.
The Internet, in turn, has provided new frontiers for law enforcement
tappers. At first, surveillance of Internet traffic was useful only in
hacking cases - after all, only geeks were online. But as the world has gone
digital, criminals have as well, and Internet taps are requested in a
growing number of cases. According to documents obtained by the Electronic
Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group based in Washington, requests
from field offices for help with "data interception operations" rose more
than 18-fold between fiscal years 1997 and 1999.




New York Times 02/08/01
Photos go beyond the inkjet
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/technology/08STAT.html

by David Pogue
BEHIND every person who extols the virtues of a digital camera, there's a
traditional film-camera owner listening with a baffled expression. Sure,
it's fun to preview your photos on a digital camera's built-in screen, but
getting them onto paper is usually a clunky and imperfect process, a far cry
from simply dropping off a roll of film at the mall. You have to transfer
images from the camera to a Mac or PC and perhaps fiddle with them for a
while. Then you either upload them to a photo- developing Web site and wait
for next week's mail or, if you're like most people, print them on a color
inkjet printer.
Inkjet printers are inexpensive, and if you use fancy $1-per-sheet glossy
paper, the results look a lot like real photos from a few feet away. On the
other hand, inkjet printouts have their limitations. They can smudge when
touched by moist fingers. Up close, the image looks grainy. And when left in
sunlight, most inkjet printouts begin to fade within months.



New York Times 02/08/01
Damage Control: how to protect your computer against blackouts
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/technology/08COPE.html

by Katie Hafner
T HERE are blackouts, and then there are blackouts. Unlike unexpected power
outages caused by bad weather, the rolling blackouts in California have been
planned and last no longer than two hours.
But regardless of the duration of interruption, many of the precautions are
the same.
If yours is a heavily computer-dependent household, you should consider
investing in an uninterruptible power supply or two. "It may help you avoid
some agony," said Jonathan Cogan, an energy information specialist at the
Energy Information Administration, part of the federal Department of Energy.
"If you've lost two hours of work, it may be worth the investment."
Most large office supply and computer stores carry U.P.S. units, and there
are many brands to choose from. APC and Tripp Lite make popular models.




New York Times 02/08/01
Search engine hunts for gold beneath the surface of the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/08/technology/08GEE3.html

by Lisa Guernsey
S pecialized search engines have been lifesavers for many Web users,
primarily because they make it easier to dig into the "invisible Web," the
online content that is not usually found by general search tools like Yahoo
or Excite. But specialization comes with a price. Instead of being able to
check many sources with just one search, Web searchers looking for the
unusual browse directories of specialty engines and then run their searches
on each engine, one after the other.



Network World Fusion 02/07/01
eSystems set to release e-mail archiving software
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0207esys.html

by John Fontana
With more than 275 million corporate e-mail accounts active today, the need
is greater than ever for companies to create policies to retain and delete
e-mail, which can eventually become a legal liability or lifesaver.
Next week, eSystems will join a growing list of vendors offering archiving
software that helps enterprises warehouse and organize their volumes of
e-mail. The company will ship a module for its ASaP database that stores,
indexes and archives e-mail messages and their attachments. The software,
called E-mail Management Module (EMM), has a browser-based client that
allows end users to search e-mail archives online.




Asia Computer Weekly 02/12/01
NAS, Kodak and SQL View build an electronic archive system
<http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=7031&Catid=28&s
ubcat=31442>

In a bid to develop an electronic repository base for its future knowledge
management (KM) system, the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) has signed
a memorandum of understanding with Kodak and local KM solutions provider SQL
View to develop an electronic archiving system.
The system will be ready for deployment within a year's time and will cost
the three parties S$100,000 (US$57,456) each to develop.




St. Petersburg Times 02/08/01
Ballot examination carried out to create historic archive of votes
http://www.sptimes.com/News/020601/Pasco/Ballot_examination_ca.shtml

By Brady Dennis
DADE CITY -- Kurt Browning knows the drill well by now
Early Monday morning, the Pasco County supervisor of elections and six staff
members -- all wearing wearied looks on their faces -- cracked open the file
cabinets for another group of observers to take a peek at Pasco's November
election ballots.
This time around, the ballots are being judged by the non-profit National
Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. NORC was hired for the
job by a 10-member media consortium -- including the St. Petersburg Times,
the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the
Chicago Tribune and CNN.




Uventures.com 02/08/01
Usa: Kettering University awarded SAE archive and patent collection
http://www.uventures.com/servlets/UVTechNews/2041

Some of the automobile industrys most important historical documents have
been donated to Kettering University by the Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE).
The university, in Flint, Michigan, is the former General Motors Institute
(GMI).
The universitys Scharchburg Archives have been named the repository for the
SAE Archives and Patent Collection - the only comprehensive collection of
exclusively automotive patents in existence.
The patent collection was formerly owned by the American Automobile
Manufacturers Association (AAMA) library in Detroit and includes automotive
patents from 1790 to 1999 as well as a comprehensive index.




Puget Sound Business Journal 02/06/01
Web archiving firm seeks buyer or merger after layoffs
http://seattle.bcentral.com/seattle/stories/2001/02/05/daily13.html

FizzyLab Corp., the Seattle-based developer of technology for archiving and
searching Web sites, hopes to sell its assets or merge with another company,
according to a report in the most recent issue of Editor & Publisher
magazine.
CEO Scott Hudson told the trade publication that the company, which laid off
52 of its 80 employees on Jan. 19, is looking for a buyer because of the
weak advertising market and the slower than expected growth of e-commerce.




Quality Digest
2001 Document Control Software Buyers Guide
http://www.qualitydigest.com/currentmag/html/docbg.html

A well-designed and secure electronic document control system has become an
important feature for companies invoking quality processes. Such systems
should provide a safe and secure place for documents as well as a means for
circulating only the current document revision while keeping old revisions
on file. They also need to allow users to create new revisions, route them
for approval and inform other users when a new revision supersedes the
document they've been using. If your company's quality system is ISO
9000-compliant, your document control system should also be easy to audit.
To help you find a system that meets these guidelines, Quality Digest
presents our fourth annual Document Control Software Buyers Guide.
This guide lists companies that specialize in document control software and
provides some details about specific products. Most of the products are for
organizationwide document control, but some apply to specific segments of an
organization's document control process. To narrow your search for the
software that will best meet your company's needs, make sure you have a
thorough understanding of your documentation department's current document
control procedures and your company's computing environment.




Pittsburgh Business Times 02/06/01
Allegheny County launches legal document Web site
http://pittsburgh.bcentral.com/pittsburgh/stories/2001/02/05/daily20.html

Netgov and Allegheny County have introduced a fully integrated Web site
linking lawyers to court documents, making these accessible around the
clock. It is the first such program in the United States.




The Irish Times 02/08/01
Chairman orders Mara to produce financial records
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0208/flood1.htm

by Paul Cullen
The former Government press secretary, Mr P.J. Mara, has been ordered to
produce to the Flood tribunal all his financial records from 1988 to date,
the tribunal was told yesterday.
The tribunal is investigating an allegation by the co-founder of Century
Radio, Mr James Stafford, that Mr Mara and the former minister for
communications, Mr Ray Burke, operated a "price list" for the award of
commercial broadcasting licences. Mr Mara and Mr Burke deny the allegation,
which even Mr Stafford admits is "hear say".




Canada Newswire 02/06/01
MDA-developed system to enable the electronic transfer of legal documents
goes into operation
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2001/06/c1069.html

Partnership with eXI Produces First Internet-based Professional
    Identity Registry

    RICHMOND, BC, Feb. 6 /CNW/ - MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (TSE:
MDA) announced today that the Juricert system, developed by the company to
register and validate identities online for use in Internet applications, is
now up and running. Juricert will also make it possible, at a future date,
for
MDA's land information business in B.C. to accept legal information related
to
the housing transaction business.




MSNBC.com 01/03/01
New archives building sought
http://www.msnbc.com/local/azrep/azrais8mihc.asp?cp1=1

by Kathleen Ingley
The Arizona Republic
Arizona's history is cracking, crumbling and fading.
In the state archives, extradition records for Wyatt Earp and the files of
the groundbreaking Miranda case are stored in dusty rooms with no protection
from humidity. The collection is so scattered that it takes days to fish out
a document for someone hunting family roots.
And conditions are "just going from bad to worse," said Douglas Kupel, a
historian in the Phoenix City Attorney's Office and the treasurer of Friends
of Arizona Archives.
The Friends want state lawmakers to fund a $20 million building to store the
records and make them more accessible.



Lehigh Valley News 02/08/01
Ridge urges more disclosure of records
But some state lawmakers are undecided about how open they want the access
law to be.
http://www.mcall.com/html/news/regional/b_pg002b2_5open1.htm

by Mario F. Cattabiani  and David La Torre
HARRISBURG -- State lawmakers agree with Gov. Tom Ridge that the time has
come to update Pennsylvania's antiquated Open Records Law, but they are
divided over just how open.
The law, considered one of the weakest in the nation, is supposed to provide
access to state government by making documents public, but does not address
computerized records.
Consequently, the law is applied inconsistently. At times, that closes the
door to public information.
At the tail end of his budget presentation on Tuesday, Ridge urged the
Legislature to strengthen the 44-year-old rules governing public access to
government records. And, in a comment that didn't sit well with many
lawmakers, he suggested they live under the same rules as other government
bodies across the state.




Newsbytes 02/07/01
Senators want Congress Documents online
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/161662.html

by Robert MacMillan
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., and Judiciary
Committee Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Tuesday said they would
introduce a resolution calling for open Internet access to "important"
congressional documents such as lobbyist reports and gift disclosure forms.
"The taxpayers of this country, who pay $67 million a year to fund the
(Congressional Research Service) deserve speedy access to these public
resources, and have a right to see that their money is being spent well,"
Leahy said in remarks on the Senate floor.




The Age 02/09/01
Top Secret: Made in Australia:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/09/FFXEEJBBXIC.html

by Penny Fannin
It was when he was researching a book on Doc Evatt in the early 1990s that
historian Wayne Reynolds noticed a certain unity to the defence policies of
Australian governments after World War II. He began to wonder why. The
answer, when it came, was startling: Australia had planned to build an
atomic bomb. And Britain was going to help Australia do it.
"There's no one file that proves it," Reynolds says on the eve of
publication of his book, Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb. Or, if such a
file exists, Reynolds wasn't permitted to see it. Instead, he has spent six
years trying to "discern a pattern from the fragments left in various
archives and personal papers".
He willingly acknowledges that the conclusions he has reached are "like a
mosaic with big pieces missing". But he believes the pieces that are in
place stand on their own as evidence that Australia, with help from Britain,
had the facilities and know-how needed to build an atomic bomb.




Chicago Tribune 02/08/01
Village president defends residency
John Geils offers documents to prove he lives in Bensenville
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0102080358,00.htm
l

by Jon Yates
Armed with everything from his utility bills and tax returns to a library
card and plumbing receipts, Bensenville Village President John Geils began
his defense Wednesday against claims he no longer lives in the village.
At a meeting of the village's Board of Elections, Geils' lawyers called the
allegations by his opponent in the April election frivolous and misguided.



ZDNet news 02/08/01
Cookie monster: Gnutella may expose users to data theft
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2683950,00.html

by John Borland
Web surfers trading free music and other digital goods over one of the Web's
most popular file-swapping networks are sharing much more: sensitive data
files that could expose them to identity theft.
One of several file-swapping networks coat-tailing on Napster's success,
Gnutella allows people to open the contents of their computers to create a
virtual swap meet for MP3s, software, video and text files. A recent casual
search of the system revealed scores of files that could compromise the
service's users.
Putting these would-be file swappers at risk are electronic markers, known
as cookies, left automatically on their computers through Netscape or
Internet Explorer Web browsers. Web sites place cookies as a way to identify
surfers, using them to create personalized Web sites or accounts at shopping
sites such as Amazon.com.





Bangor Daily News 02/08/01
Indians back in court to challenge access law
http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=28727

by Susan Young
Three tribal governors who avoided jail time in a legal battle with paper
companies last fall will be back in court this week and next as the debate
over the sovereignty of Maine's Indian tribes regains the judicial
spotlight.
Friday, attorneys for the tribes and paper companies will argue in front of
the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston about whether a state or federal
court is the proper venue for the debate on whether the tribes are subject
to Maine's Freedom of Access Law.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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