Information Management Journal articles from May 2003

Information Management Journal archives from May 2003

Planning for the worst. (In focus: a message from the editors).(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... At 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, one of several tornadoes that touched down in the Miami area hit an Archive America facility. The facility, which is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, sustained some damage to its roof,...

Should libraries censor patrons' surfing? (Up front: news, trends & analysis).
May 1, 2003... The Supreme Court said it will decide before July whether Congress can require public libraries to install software to filter out explicit sexual materials as a condition for receiving federal money. In a case that pits free speech against...

Few organizations have effective continuity plans. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).
May 1, 2003... According to Meta Group research, only 20 percent of Global 2000 organizations have business continuity plans effective enough to ensure a strong likelihood that they will survive a disaster without long-lasting adverse effects. Business...

Risk management: a core competency for CIOs. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In the post-September 11 era, risk management is rapidly becoming a significant area of concern for chief information officers (CIOs). According to Meta Group, by 2006, risk management will become a core competency for the CIO position....

U.S. patent office moves data online. (Up front: news,trends & analysis).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Patents become public information in exchange for a 20-year monopoly on an invention. But patent records must be kept available forever. Each year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office receives 340,000 patent applications, some of which are...

One number for phone, fax, and 'net? (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The U.S. government recently announced its support for ENUM, an emerging standard that could simplify personal communications by providing a single point of contact for telephone and Internet communications. The electronic-numbering system...

Cyber crime code could punish online protesters. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(New code is signed by European Union (EU) justice ministers)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... In February, protesters spoke out against a war in Iraq by bombarding the White House and U.S. Senate offices with tens of thousands of e-mail, phone, and fax messages as part 'of what was billed as the first-ever "virtual protest march." ...

The need for speed. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(NEC and Japanese government-funded research group Riken create state of quantum entanglement between two solid-state qubits )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Japan's NEC Corp. and a public research body have taken a step closer to ultra-fast quantum computing. Quantum computers are expected to far surpass the capabilities of today's most powerful supercomputers, particularly in areas such as data...

Pentagon designed for records storage. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).
May 1, 2003... The Pentagon has served as the United States' military headquarters since the end of World War II, but the 6.6-million-square-foot structure was originally designed for document and records storage--and that may have saved lives when the...

Will floppy drives become extinct? (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Floppy disk drives have been the most widely used method of transferring data between computers since the dawn of the computer age, but they soon may go the way of the dinosaur. Dell Computer recently announced it would stop making floppy...

Hard drives tell all. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(Hard drives that contain personal information raise privacy and identity theft concerns )
May 1, 2003... According to Gartner Inc., about 150,000 hard drives were retired in 2002. Many ended up in the trash can, but some, no doubt, found their way back onto the market. Hard drives that contain personal information raise privacy and identity theft...

Will PDF prevent a digital dark age? (Up front: news, trends & analysis).(NARA says Adobe's portable document format is an acceptable file format in which to submit information and records for archiving)
May 1, 2003... It is every archivist's worst nightmare: electronic files will survive, but the equipment required to read them will not. With more and more records and information being stored digitally, this scenario has become a reality. Institutions have...

Information at a price: liberty vs. security: follow-up legislation proposes to increase the sweeping domestic intelligence and surveillance powers granted to the U.S. federal government by the USA PATRIOT Act--but will it be at the cost of civil liberties? (Capital Edge: legislative & regulatory update).
May 1, 2003... A sign posted at 10 public libraries in Santa Cruz, California, warns patrons that the government may be watching what they read: Warning: Although the Santa Cruz Library makes every effort to protect your privacy, under the...

Global graphics acquires Ansyr Technology. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Global Graphics Software Limited buys business and assets of Ansyr Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Global Graphics Software Limited, software subsidiary of Global Graphics S.A., has acquired the business and assets of Ansyr Technology, developer of document management workflow software for mobile enterprise workers. The purchase strengthens...

Kodak enhances scanners. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Kodak Capture Software is introduced for i200 Series of production scanners)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Kodak's commercial imaging group introduces Kodak Capture Software for its i200 Series of production scanners. The plug-and-play application supports all Kodak scanners at rated speeds to increase productivity and throughput from...

DocuLex offers OCR V6. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... DocuLex OCR Version 6 for lawyers is an optical character recognition software product that enables the legal field to convert paper documents and TIFF files to a text-based document that retains the format, character, font, and style of the...

Spacesaver announces TouchPad Release. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Spacesaver Corp. introduces a waist- high TouchPad Release as an ADA- friendly alternative to the mechanical foot pedal on rotary storage units. The code-access release features an easy-to-operate keypad with two modes of operation that enable...

Minolta offers total print solution. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(DiALTA di551 dual laser beam, digital monochrome printer/ copier/scanner )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Minolta's DiALTA di551 dual laser beam, digital monochrome printer/ copier/scanner lets users print, finish, scan, store, and share documents with point-and-click speed and simplicity. Users can manage up to 30 jobs at once with job memory and...

Accent Graphics announces ASP Solution. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Accent Graphics has released the Presentation Librarian ASP Solution, a Web-based digital asset management tool that allows organizations to turn digital assets into a searchable knowledge base of corporate resources. Its high-speed import...

Software features built-in anti-piracy. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Endeavors Technology)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... With built-in anti-piracy support, Endeavors Technology's Magi Application-Express software securely Web-enables all Windows applications on demand over the Internet from central servers to desktops. Its publishing process delivers native...

Open Text offers Livelink tools. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Open Text released knowledge management/search solutions Livelink Naturalizer and Livelink Recommender. With built-in intelligence, Naturalizer interprets natural language queries to return what the user wants. Recommender integrates expert...

IMR launches Alchemy Web. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(Information Management Research Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Information Management Research Inc. (IMR) offers Alchemy Web, a third-generation Web product designed using Microsoft's .NET technology that allows users to publish repositories on the Web and access data from multiple locations. Contact:...

NCRA, T3 partner. (Market place: new products & industry announcements).(National Cooperative Refinery Association and T3 partner to implement Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Information System)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Petroleum cooperative the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA) partnered with T3 to implement an Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Information System. NCRA and T3 chose the Enviance ASP software package to store...

Prepared or not ... that is the vital question: when unplanned events or full-blown disasters strike, RIM professionals must have a strategy to ensure survival and at a cost that organizations can afford.
May 1, 2003... At the Core This article * defines three types of disasters and explains how to deal with them * identifies potential natural, mechanical, and human risks * provides an outline and guidance for creating a disaster plan ...

A disaster plan in action: how a law firm in the World Trade Center survived 9/11 with vital records and employees intact.(Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP )
May 1, 2003... When two planes slammed into the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings on September 11, 2001 (9/11), the law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (SAB&W) was hit directly. The firm occupied floors 54 through 59 in the North Tower, the building hit...

The unlikely heroes of cyber security: viruses, privacy breaches, and other malicious cyber activity regularly threaten organizations' vital information. Cyber insurance providers hope to control the damage risk.
May 1, 2003... A customer's confidential account information is broadcast over the Internet without his bank's knowledge. An unknown computer hacker, whose future plans may shut down the bank's e-business network for days or even weeks, causes the breach. ...

Recording integrity: assessing records' content after enron: in the post-Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley environment, RIM professionals must expand their thinking and responsibilities to improve and more proactively manage the information content in organizations' corporate records.
May 1, 2003... At the Core This Article * discuss 19 criteria to measure the overall quality of information contained in corporate records * explains how the quality of corporate records affects compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act *...

The 'wonder years' of knowledge management: just because the words are not being used as often does not mean that knowledge management has faded away--it has simply matured a bit. (Management Wise).
May 1, 2003... At the Core This article * discusses the state of knowledge management (KM) today * describes past and current stages of KM * explores the future of KM Knowledge management (KM) may not be as written about, about, or...

The corporate records conundrum: capturing e-mail in corporate records requires the right approach to technology, but solving the problem sets the stage for future challenges. (Business Matters).
May 1, 2003... At the Core This article * discusses ways organizations can effectively manage e-mail * explains the records management challenges presented by e-mail * explains how organizations can integrate e-mail with their records...

Resource review: an online database for every corporate toolbox.(Privacy Knowledge Base from Privacy Council)
May 1, 2003... TITLE: Privacy Knowledge Base PUBLISHER: Privacy Council MEDIUM: Online subscription service LENGTH: 12-month subscription SUBSCRIPTION FEE: $99 U.S. (annual) SOURCE: www.arma.org/topics/privacy Smart records managers...

Effectively managing electronic records and archives.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... TITLE: Effective Approaches for Managing Electronic Records and Archives AUTHOR: Bruce W. Dearstyne (Editor) ISBN: 0810842009 PUBLISHER: Scarecrow Press PUBLICATION DATE: 2002 LENGTH: 167 pages PRICE: $33 U.S. ...

ARMA 2003: boston: converging technology, knowledge, business, and information management. (Special section).(Association of Records Management Administrators)
May 1, 2003... All About Boston Join ARMA in Boston this October to explore the future of the profession in a city where history and business converge The birthplace of American history, Boston is equal parts colonial charm, high-tech sophistication,...