Papers by Michael Steemson
Development of International Records Management Standard, ISO15489.
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Up-date 2004: Arabs & U.S. agree on RM standard as it
sweeps the world. In Year Three of the international recordkeeping standard, two old protagonists agree over something and the ISO work gets translated into almost a dozen different languages. Dateline 2002: RM standard ISO15489 takes the world by storm
Year One of the international recordkeeping standard has the ARM world buzzing and translating it into French, Dutch, German, and Mandarin Chinese.
Launch 2001: ISO15489: Set it to music. You're gonna need it!
As the Standard is published and launched, a review and disclosure of the turbulant world diplomacy, co-operation and debates that forged it.
Technical Report: World taken by surprise: Nations agree on "how to's". Technical Report or Guidelines ISO TR 15489.2, as it is renamed, gets a big re-write to unanimous approval.
Dateline 1999: ISO15489: It's a vital number: Better remember it!
The international recordkeeping community's standard nears completion.
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Challenges of e-Government and strategies for Records and
Archives Management services. An up-date on e-Government world-wide and its scary challenges to recordkeepers in a paper to the Evidence, Information and Memory: Research in Integrated Management and Services for Urban Development Records and Archives conference in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, in April 2004.
Letter to a tyro Editor: Haven't we done well!Lingering look back and gentle advice for Michael Steemson's recordkeeping Alma Mater, the Records Management Society of Great Britain, seen across the near-decade in office of Ann Lawes, the retiring editor of the society's RM Bulletin.
Global e-Government: What there is to learn from other people
A wide-ranging review of e-Government programmes world wide and of some nations that, in their haste to get on-line, appear to be have failed to adopt vital recordkeeping principles.
Benefits from the Australian RM standard for a document handling consultant
A November 2000 appraisal of the Australian Standard AS4390 and its effects on consultants and clients.
e-Business - Recordkeeping's biggest challenge since forever
A global perspective on the over-hyped, over-sized, under-estimated "e" monster.
Cricket, Rugby and Records Management ... We've set the Standard!
Despite some dismaying Rugby football results, Michael Steemson demonstrates the impact of Australia's Records Management Standard AS4390 on the nation's recordkeeping environment.
I can see clearly now the Mainframe's gone Backstage
Now that PCs rule the world and the "big iron" mainframes have been relegated to Internet server farms, network processing and data storage, the information view is clear to the horizon.
BSI's Better Code for Legal Admissibility: Flawed, but vital to wannabe Knowledge Management professionals
British Standard's new code for ensuring legal admissibility of electronically-stored data, PD0008:1999, takes the final, vital step into rewriteable media - but the navigation's a nightmare!
How to Make the Law Love your Image
Doubts about legal admissibility of electronic documents have troubled record-keepers since imaging technology offered relief from the bulk of paper archives, anxieties that have found an answer.
From Archives to Warehouse
A paper as short as its title examining the campaign of New Zealand recordkeepers and genealogists against Government plans to downgrade the country's National Archives.
Managing Records or Managing Media: Information Boom, or Bust!
The future of Record-keeping: Development for records and information management to the end of the second decade of the 21st Century; a records and information fiction (R.I.-fi?) but arguably an attainable world.
Case Study: Balancing Act with Cost, Speed, Bulk, Compression and Definition while Building a Digital Store for Unlimited Images.
A British newspaper group's news archive imaging project.
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