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Biographical notes Michael Steemson. Mike Steemson leads the independent records and information management Caldeson Consultancy in Wellington, N.Z., after eight years' information management work with the British media group, Express Newspapers plc, publishers in London of The Daily Express, the Express on Sunday and the Daily Star. As Editorial Services Manager at Express Newspapers, he was responsible for the application development of the newspapers' Reference Library imaging systems for photographs and news clippings. A member and former chairman of the Records Management Society of Great Britain (RMS), he has worked on two permanent British Standards Institution (BSI) committees, on document imaging standards and business development. He was one of the imaging system users and consultants called together by the British Government's computer agency, CCTA, in 1993, in the first moves towards the establishment in the UK of a users' guide for the legal admissibility of imaged documents. The following year, he became chairman of the resultant Legal Images Initiative consortium for its investigative and study period. In 1995, he chaired the BSI committee that oversaw the drafting of the Institution's legal admissibility code of practice (see: A Better Code for Legal Admissibility: Flawed, but vital to wannabe KM Professionals). He chaired public seminars organised by the BSI in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in February and March, 1996, to launch the document, the "Code of Practice for Information Stored on Electronic Document Management Systems". He chaired international conference tracks on Records Management issues in London, at the OIS Document Management conference at the Wembley Arena in 1993, and at the Document 94 conference at Olympia in 1994. He has presented system case-studies to conferences in London (1992-95), Vienna (1990), Istanbul (1991), and Singapore (1995).
In 1997, he presented papers to the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ) annual conference in Rotorua, the annual TRIM software User Forum (TUF) in Mandurah, Western Australia, and the annual conference of the Records Management Association of Australia (RMAA) in Perth. That December, he chaired a two-day conference on Automatic Data Capture and Electronic Document Management for international conference organisers A.I.C. in Wellington. In April 1998, he presented a paper on the legal admissibility of electronic documents issue to the Edinburgh conference of the International Records Management Council (IRMC) and the Records Management Society. The following year, he gave papers to the annual conference of the Records Management Association of Australia in Darwin (see: I can see clearly now the Mainframe’s gone backstage), and to a joint RMAA-Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) seminar in Melbourne (see: Cricket, Rugby and Records Management - We’ve set the Standard). In 1999, Michael Steemson was appointed chairman of a committee to create a New Zealand Guide to the Australian Records Management Standard, AS4390. The New Zealand group was appointed a sub-committee of the Australian Records Management Standard Committee, IT/21, and Mr Steemson joined the Australian delegation to the International Standards Organisation Records Management Standard sub-committee, ISO TC/46/SC11. He attended working conferences of the sub-committee in Paris, Melbourne, Berlin and Stockholm and joined SC11's technical report ad hoc group. In 2001, he presented papers on the new standard to two Antipodean conferences, one in Wellington, New Zealand (the Silver Jubilee conference of the ARANZ) and the other in Hobart, Tasmania, which he chaired, the first joint annual conference of the RMAA and the ASA (see: ISO15489: Set it to music. You're gonna need it!. The following year, 2002, he was appointed Scientific Writer to the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) programme's DigiCULT Forum, a series of seven gatherings of European and world experts held in the course of the following two years to provide a technology watch mechanism for the cultural and scientific heritage sector. His report on the Forum debates in Barcelona, DigiCULT Experts Search for e-Archive Permanence, in Essen, Germany, DigiCULT Experts Unravel the Hype of Digital Asset Management Technology, and subsequent meetings are published in Thematic Issues on line and in printed format available from the project co-ordinators, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Salzburg, Austria. China conference In the same year, he was part of a records management group that formed the New Zealand branch of the RMAA and, in November, was elected branch Vice-President and co-Director. In 2003, he attended RMAA National Board of Directors meetings at the Association's head office in Brisbane and, in September, joined the annual convention in Melbourne. In April 2004, he is to speak at an international conference, Evidence, Information and Memory: Research in Integrated Management and Integrated Services of Urban Development Records and Archives, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China, organised jointly by the Archives College at the Renmin University of China, Beijing, the Information Resources Management Research Institute of Zhejiang University and professional recordkeeping organisations. Mike Steemson was born in Norfolk, England, but raised and schooled
in New Zealand where he began his career as a journalist. He
moved to London's Fleet Street in the 1960s where he worked as
a reporter and later a news editor for the Daily Express. He
moved to management in Express Newspapers in 1988 when the first
imaging system was introduced into the Reference Library. He returned to New Zealand to take up practice in Seatoun, Wellington, in 1996. Aged 67, he has two sons and two grand-children living in Britain. To go to the Home Page, click HERE.
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