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RAIN 04/26: Open Archives, Open Records and more digitisation



PatrickC asked "Is there ever a slow news day?" Not that I can see.


ABC News Online 4/25/01
Vital armed services records won't be destroyed
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-24apr2001-83.htm

The National Archives service says it is not in the business of destroying
valuable armed services records.
Around Australia, National Service registration files from 1951 to 1959,
which cover about 800 metres of shelves, are in the process of being
destroyed.


dc.internet.com 4/24/01
AIIM develops digital preservation standards study team
http://dc.internet.com/briefs/article/0,1934,2431_750481,00.html

AIIM International an industry association for the enterprise content
management (ECM) business, is forming a study team to develop digital
preservation standards. The intent of the team is to develop standard
practices, guidelines, procedures, and test targets that will allow users to
specify quality levels and provide measurement tools for non-traditional
methods of image capture and retrieval.
The Silver Spring, Md.-based organization considers this is an important
initiative as digital imaging and digital to film providers do not have such
benchmarks in place for non-optical capture and recovery.


MSNBC.com 4/23/01
Cyberstalking in the office
http://www.msnbc.com/news/563475.asp

by Bob Sullivan
She was a young, attractive, friendly single clerk. He was an obsessive
network administrator with access to the entire company's computer systems.
She turned him down; he wouldn't take no for an answer. The side comments,
e-mails and creepy looks never stopped. Eventually, he was fired, and that's
when the trouble really started.


DMNews 4/24/01
Coca-Cola to auction Rockwell prints on eBay
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=14721

By: Mickey Alam Khan
Adding a new sales outlet, Coca-Cola Co. will sell Norman Rockwell
lithograph sets on eBay.com, the first time the soft-drink maker has sold
memorabilia on an online trading site.
Through an exclusive one-time listing, the Atlanta-based company will offer
1,000 limited-edition prints of Rockwell illustrations that ran as artwork
for four Coca-Cola calendars in the 1930s. The listings will be featured
April 27 through May 7 on eBay's collectibles category.


Inman News Features 4/24/01
Flagstar Bancorp prepares for digital loans in Michigan
http://www.inman.com/aha/story.asp?ID=24219

by Warren Lutz
A company set on providing totally electronic mortgage transactions has a
new lending partner and is getting ready to roll out paperless loans in
Michigan.
Baltimore, Md.-based eOriginal, which provides technology that allows the
creation and storage of electronic documents, recently signed a partnership
with Michigan-based Flagstar Bancorp Inc., one of the nation's 20 biggest
mortgage lenders.


Internet week 4/24/01
XML's Tower of Babel
Industry-specific dialects may sound good, but they can create more
confusion than communication
http://www.internetweek.com/indepth01/indepth042401.htm

by Lenny Liebmann
The original promise of Extensible Markup Language was to offer an easier
way for companies to exchange data with customers and partners independent
of their specific database platforms or architectures. But the proliferation
of industry-specific XML dialects may create more confusion than
communication as IT managers try to build B2B systems.


New York Times 4/24/01
Hale House and its president ordered to produce records
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/nyregion/24INQU.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Terry Pristin
The state attorney general's office has begun a formal investigation of Hale
House, the troubled Harlem charity that has been the focus of news reports
raising questions about how it manages its finances, officials said
yesterday.
Subpoenas were issued Friday to Dr. Lorraine E. Hale, the president of Hale
House, and to Maurice McHugh, its chief financial officer, ordering them to
provide records concerning the charity. Dr. Hale was also ordered to submit
records about her personal finances, the officials said.


Premises Networks.com 4/23/01
StorageTek, others team to offer digital video archive product
http://www.premisesnetworks.com/content/news/article.asp?docid={2F44156E-37D
6-11D5-A770-00D0B7694F32}&VNETCOOKIE=NO

LOUISVILLE, Colo. and LAS VEGAS -- StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corp.),
a global leader in tape automation, announced today at NAB 2001 its alliance
with ManagedStorage International and Front Porch Digital, Inc. for the
production of an end-to-end digital video archive solution that enables
high-quality, low-cost digitization and storage of analog videos.
The digitizing and archiving of accumulated analog video provide data-rich
customers with a more efficient way of managing and delivering content on
demand.


St. Petersburg Times 4/24/01
Lost but not forgotten
http://www.sptimes.com/News/042401/Sports/Lost_but_not_forgotte.shtml

by Keith Niebuhr
The scrapbook that Jimmy Smith keeps tucked away in a backyard storage shed
holds newspaper clippings and tournament programs that chronicle his
basketball career at Tampa's Middleton High School in the 1960s. Among the
items are keepsakes from Middleton's 1964 state championship season.
Every once in a while, he opens the scrapbook and relives his youth.
"Talk about a great feeling," Smith said.


Toledo Blade 4/24/01
Audit of Attica finances find no significant fraud
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010424&Kate
gori=NEWS17&Lopenr=424009&Ref=AR

ATTICA, Ohio - A special state audit of Attica's books has found no
significant fraud in the three years before Linda Stoldt was removed as
clerk-treasurer in November, 1999.
The report, issued by state Auditor Jim Petro, said Ms. Stoldt should repay
$686 for allegedly using village checks to pay for personal cellular phone
calls.


US News 4/23/01
Is the library a good place for books?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010423/library.htm

by Jay Tolson
Mention book burning, and the names Savonarola and Hitler might come to
mind. But will the destruction of wide swaths of our written heritage one
day be blamed on the professionals who run the world's great research
libraries?
In Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, author Nicholson Baker
charges that a 50-year-old crusade to microfilm-and now to
digitize-newspapers, books, and other items has led to irretrievable losses.
At the Library of Congress and other leading research libraries, hundreds of
thousands of books and entire newspaper collections have been tossed.
Believing that reformatted versions will serve as adequate substitutes for
paper documents, smaller libraries confidently dispose of many of their own
holdings. But that confidence is misplaced, say Baker and others. In
addition to destroying information that can be conveyed only through the
original artifacts, they say, the policy of "destroying to preserve" rests
on faulty assumptions, bad evidence, and confused priorities.


Volta Net Gains 4/24/01
IBM, Sony digitise CNN archive
<http://www.voltapublishing.com/cgi-bin/news/index.cgi?ref=browse&f=view&id=
988129626212120152110&block=>

IBM and Sony have announced the end result of a collaboration on a digital
asset management system that will digitally manage 120,000 hours of CNN's
archival material. The five-to-seven-year, $20-million project will put
CNN's analog videotape archive online in a virtual file cabinet for
journalists and media players to pull from and represents 21 years of the
corporation's existence.


Detroit News 4/25/01
Digital survey stalled
http://detnews.com/2001/oakland/0104/23/c01-216031.htm

by Jennifer Brooks
West Bloomfield - Two years ago, Oakland County launched an ambitious effort
to make images of every building within its borders available at a push of a
button to everyone from emergency crews rushing to an accident scene to
local bureaucrats rushing through paperwork.
Hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, churches, businesses and vacant
lots have since been digitally photographed and stored in the county's
computers, with the rest set to be shot this summer, starting in mid-May.


New York Times 4/25/01
Sun plans system for sharing computer files over Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/25/technology/25COMP.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Paul Andrews
San Francisco -- Frustrated that the breadth of the Internet is increasingly
eluding computer users, Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, is
planning to announce on Wednesday an initiative aimed at increasing people's
ability to share information stored on their personal computers and other
devices connected to the Internet.


Pioneer Planet 4/25/01
Officials say privacy law would give public employees more protections
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/tod/news/docs/031270.htm

by Jenny Price
Associated Press
Public employees' records would have more protections under a proposed
change to the state's Open Records Law, a representative of state records
custodians told a legislative committee Tuesday.
Some state agencies are releasing information now, such as performance
evaluations, that would be protected under proposed changes to the law, said
Elizabeth Reinwald, legislative liaison for the state Department of Employee
Relations.


Sfbg.com 4/25/01
Open the archives!
How the open source movement is changing historic archives
http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/35/30/lead.html

by Joyce Slaton
IN 1935 OTTO Bettmann preserved an invaluable chunk of history when he
sneaked two steamer trunks of photos out of Nazi Germany. His collection of
photos kept growing when he began a new life in America, and eventually it
documented events and objects as disparate as World War II battlefields,
Rosa Parks on the bus, and historical medical tools. And Bettman's
collection expanded even after his death. In 2001 the Bettman Archive
contained an estimated 17 million images, some of them quite famous - the
photo of JFK Jr. saluting his father's coffin, for instance. But even
without the most famous photos, this collection is unarguably a treasure of
visual documentation from the 20th century.


Stockhouse Canada 4/25/01
Hummingbird Knowledge Management Solution to be Implemented
http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/news.asp?tick=T.HUM&newsid=736189

HUMMINGBIRD LTD ("HUM-T;HUMC-Q") - Hummingbird Knowledge Management Solution
to be Implemented - Worldwide by UK Law Firm DLA
Hummingbird Ltd. a world-leading enterprise software company, announced that
DLA, a top international law firm, has purchased 2,500 licenses of
Hummingbird Fulcrum KnowledgeServer(TM), a knowledge-retrieval and analysis
solution.


Baltimore Sun 4/25/01
Columbia builder pleads guilty to falsifying documents
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/howard/bal-ho.altieri25apr25.story?coll=ba
l%2Dlocal%2Dhoward

by Lisa Goldberg
One of the region's major home builders was fined $2,400 in Howard County
Circuit Court yesterday after the company pleaded guilty to charges that its
workers falsified building inspection documents.
Altieri Homes Inc., a Columbia company, entered guilty pleas to two criminal
counts each of false entry in a public record and false endorsement of
documents. Prosecutors dropped five additional charges against the company
and a separate set of charges against the company president, Daren Altieri,
during yesterday's hearing.


Seattle Times 4/25/01
Online court records let the sunshine in
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
lug=barry25&date=20010425

by Arthur M. Monty Ahalt
Are public records in danger of becoming too public?
This is the paradoxical question now being deliberated by the policymakers
for our nation's courts. Depending on their answer, the judicial branch
could soon retreat from operating in full sunshine, and an opportunity to
make our legal system more efficient, fair and accountable could be lost.


The Sun Chronicle 4/25/041
Councilors demand, to get health records
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/display/inn_city/city8.txt

by George W. Rhodes
ATTLEBORO -- Health officials told an irritated city council that they will
provide whatever public records councilors request -- free of charge.
The promise comes after months of conflict between Health Agent Jim Mooney
and City Councilor Roxanne Houghton over requests for documents.
Houghton has charged that Mooney has consistently obstructed or declined to
provide records she has requested. In one case, he charged her $34 for
documents because she asked for them as a `` private citizen.''


Chatttanooga Times Free Press 4/24/01
State, federal courts cutting back on paper records
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2001/apr/24apr01/webcourtdocs.html

by Kimberley Greuter
Both state and federal courts in Hamilton County are taking steps to rely
less on paper to keep records.
Hamilton County Criminal Court Clerk Gwen Tidwell said the move will save
money and make records more accessible to the public.
"We are working toward getting as little paper as possible," she said.




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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