RAIN060404 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Corporate Alzheimer's: Coping With Forgotten File Formats Special to Law.com What if the file formats we use to save documents aren't supported by future products? Could that cause a kind of corporate Alzheimer's, threatening our ability to recall critical documents? Commentator John K. Waters says the question of how to guarantee long-term access to data, free of the restrictions of proprietary software or the limitations of outdated technologies, is at the heart of a debate over open file formats being offered as a cure for a debilitating information-age malady. http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1144067962734 In Focus: Two New Products Aim at Enterprisewide Retention Intelligent Enterprise - San Mateo,CA,USA ... that doesn't distinguish between official records and everything else. And sooner or later, you'll have to resolve the question of when and what to delete. ... <http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/content_management/showArt icle.jhtml?articleID=184428534> Our view: Historian smart to alter course for library plan Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA Bill Stanley has expanded his focus on a presidential library for Norwich historic figure Samuel Huntington, and that should help his cause dramatically. <http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060404/OPINI ON01/604040317/1014> Counties study sharing space for archives The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA ... County Archivist Renee Drago told the committee she sees several disadvantages to the ... when they are transferred from the warehouse to the archives offices in ... <http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1144123923 289320.xml&coll=2> Old naturalization records return to court archives Tribune Chronicle - Warren,OH,USA ... than being filed away properly in Trumbull County court archives, the records ... in Cleveland,?? said Emily Varner, the county?s archivist, who partnered ... <http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=2253> Narragansett Indians oust Champlain family from tribe Boston Globe - United States ... The Champlains have used land deeds, wills and names in the Bible to justify their ... people who are requesting this can come up with the same documents they are ... <http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/04/04/narrag ansett_indians_oust_champlain_family_from_tribe> Champlain family removed from tribe Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA ... from the Narragansett Indian tribe after they failed to produce documents proving their ... In the past, the Champlains used land deeds, wills and even names ... <http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20060404_ind4.d697ace.html> Sound Files of King Assassination on Register's Web Site Memphis Daily News - TN, USA ... Photograph courtesy of the Shelby County Register of Deeds. ... filed by the Register include tax liens, property titles, mortgages, bankruptcy documents and a ... <http://www.memphisdailynews.com/Editorial/StoryLead.aspx?id=92279> New Edition of Effective Document Management will Help Information ... TMCnet - USA ... The new edition of Effective Document Management will help information and IT managers, system developers and users, records manager and librarians to update ... <http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-new-edition-effective-document-management -will-help-information-/2006/04/04/1536797.htm> Storage Security Becoming A Top Concern CRN - Manhasset,NY,USA ... Also during the year, missing data backup tapes from Bank of America, Ameritrade, Time Warner and CitiGroup had the potential of exposing the account ... <http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=1 84428489> Case Study II: A National Archive Moves to ODF NewsForge - USA Now, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) has announced that it will move its digital archives program to OpenOffice 2.0, an open source implementation of ... <http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/04/132205> Anybody remember floppy disks? Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA ... Jerry Handfield, the state's archivist, recently returned from a trip to Argentina where he viewed paper records dating from 1500. ... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin/265346_virgin04.html> Feature: Model behavior: Local club shares history with hobby Blackanthem.com - Clinton Township,MI,USA ... the Museum of Aviation. Sarah Wolfe, Museum archivist, said the group's contributions have been wonderful. "The support shown by ... <http://www.blackanthem.com/scitech/military_2006040407.html> Memories of a Film Archivist from Lor Girl to Present Pendar.net - San Francisco,CA,USA ... photos. There was a photo film peddler in Behshahr and I bought some photos. It was the beginning for me to get a film archivist. I ... <http://www.pendar.net/en/main1.asp?a_id=515> 12:10 pm: AG: former chief's e-mails are public record Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA ... e-mails by the former state police chief, despite an opinion by the attorney general that messages generated on government e-mail systems are public records. ... <http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/41799.html> Opinion a Warning for Lawyers Who Prepare Pleadings Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA ... a Collin County indictment against Vasilas on the charge of tampering with a ... "We conclude that the legislature's definition of a government record is clear and ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1143812709796> Gateway patent suit opens with mea culpa Salt Lake Tribune - United States ... Documents can be removed from public view to protect trade secrets and other sensitive personal or corporate information, but Stewart determined "much of [the ... <http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3669779> Smithsonian-Showtime Deal Restricts Access to Archives WTOP - Washington,D.C.,USA ... Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution has some documentary filmmakers wondering if they'll still have access to the vast Smithsonian archives. ... <http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=745517> Smithsonian Deal With Showtime Restricts Access By Filmmakers By Jacqueline Trescott Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 4, 2006; Page C01 As part of a near-exclusive deal with Showtime Networks, the Smithsonian Institution is restricting filmmakers' access to its scientists and archives, prompting another outcry over the museum's attempts to make money. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR200604 0301699.html?sub=AR> De-archive Web Archives Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA ... two downsides. The first is that these Web archives can be viewed only in Safari; you can?t open them in another browser. (An ... <http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/04/webarchivefolderizer/ind ex.php> New Documents Suggest Mozart Wasn't Poor ABC News - USA ... Scholars who combed through Austrian archives for an exhibition opening Tuesday on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's later years in Vienna found evidence that he was ... <http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1803571> UC library gets SF paper's archives San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA BERKELEY - The owner of the San Francisco Examiner has given more than a century's worth of the newspaper's archives to UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, the ... <http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14261493.h tm> County Web site allows access to investigation of King's death Access North Georgia - Gainesville,GA,USA ... Leatherwood. The online exhibit is listed under "Assassination Investigation" under the archives portion of the office's Web site. ... <http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=73568> County to study ways to maintain county records' privacy San Diego Union Tribune - United States ... amounts of identity theft by methamphetamine users, the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to study ways to keep sensitive county records private. ... <http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060404-1432-identity.html> Invasion heroine's records find BBC News - UK ... The county's records office in Haverfordwest has a record which shows a Jemima Nicholas was baptised in the parish of Mathry on 2 March 1755. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4874226.stm> State Archives Project to Preserve Civil War Court Records digitalBURG.com - Warrensburg,MO,USA ... Robin Carnahan announced today that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a grant for $330,619 to the Missouri State Archives, a division of ... <http://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1409.shtml> Make sure finance data you disclose is safe Chicago Tribune - United States The problem wasn't the stolen laptop--in fact, Fidelity's response was exemplary--but rather the potential problems that don't make headlines. ... <http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0604040240apr04,1,7870902.sto ry?coll=chi-business-hed> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. 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