Information Management Journal articles from September 2005

Information Management Journal archives from September 2005

Staying on top of trends, techniques leads to business success.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)
September 1, 2005... How's business? In today's global business environment, that seemingly innocuous phrase can elicit panic, pride, or a litany of complaints. For RIM professionals, an accurate answer is "Business is on the move!" Standards, new legislation...

Correction.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2005... The article "The World Moves Toward Freedom of Information" in the November/December 2004 issue incorrectly identified Thomas Blanton as being with Privacy International. He is the director of George Washington University's National Security...

U.S. Senate, House pass bills to extend patriot act.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act)(United States. Congress. Senate)(United States. Congress. House)
September 1, 2005... The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in July voted to extend 14 of the 16 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that were set to expire December 31. The House and Senate bills are different, but the differences are small enough that...

New website offers government reports.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(www.opencrs.com)(Congressional Research Service)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... A new website--www.opencrs.com--aims to make widely available to the public certain government reports dealing with topics ranging from terrorism to Social Security that congressional researchers now prepare and distribute only to lawmakers....

ALA: government asks about patrons.(UP FRONT)(American Library Association)
September 1, 2005... Last June, a library user in Whatcom County, Washington, checked out Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America and noticed a handwritten note in the margin: "Hostility toward America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded by God."...

Audit: homeland security unprepared.(UP FRONT)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... An internal audit released in June revealed that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--the office in charge of preparing the nation for disaster--is not ready for one itself. The audit found that IT operations within the DHS are...

War on terror targets ISPs in Europe.(UP FRONT)(Internet service providers)
September 1, 2005... Several European countries are working to pass controversial legislation that would require telephone companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) to retain substantial amounts of customer data, despite the European Parliament's rejection of...

FTC: subject-line labeling ineffective against spam.(UP FRONT)
September 1, 2005... The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) submitted a report to Congress in June recommending that senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail should not be required to include a label on the subject line of e-mails indicating that the e-mail is an...

New HIPAA security guidance papers released.(UP FRONT)(Health +Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Three new papers are now available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in its series of Health +Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Education Papers. The guidance papers are designed to give...

NARA releases military records.(UP FRONT)
September 1, 2005... The military records of more than 1 million Americans, including famous entertainers, politicians, athletes, and military personnel, are now available to the public for the first time. The National Personnel Records Center in Overland,...

Breaches spur data encryption.(UP FRONT)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... With reports of security breaches and data losses occurring on an almost weekly basis, companies are increasingly adopting data encryption technology that many previously avoided, according to Enterprise Strategy Group, a storage market...

Government secrecy reaches historic levels.(UP FRONT)
September 1, 2005... The U.S. government currently classifies documents at the rate of 125 a minute, using vague labels such as "sensitive security information," according to The New York Times. Driven in part by fears of terrorism, government secrecy has...

Despite complaints, U.K. complies with FOI levels.(UP FRONT)(Freedom of Information Act)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... A U.K. government watchdog commission has received more than 1,000 complaints since January about authorities failing to comply with the country's new Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, but it says public bodies are taking the requests...

Study reveals consumers' data worries.(UP FRONT)(analysis on data security)
September 1, 2005... Consumers, inundated with bad news each day about data breaches, say the government isn't doing enough to protect them, according to a Gartner Inc. study. In an extensive study on consumer attitudes toward identity theft, Gartner found...

Politicians promote FOIA compliance.(UP FRONT)
September 1, 2005... Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) have joined to crack down on government offices that ignore public requests for information and to widen the public's access to government documents. Leahy and Cornyn are promoting...

Britain warns of Trojan horse computer attacks.(UP FRONT)(Computer Viruses threatens worldwide)
September 1, 2005... Computer experts are warning of an increase in targeted computer attacks worldwide. In such attacks, virus writers craft Trojan horse programs to sneak into computers and steal documents. Recently, Great Britain's central government...

Most U.S. libraries offer free web access.(UP FRONT)(American Library Association)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... According to an American Library Association (ALA) study, nearly all U.S. libraries offer free public Internet access, and an increasing number are offering wireless connections. The study, conducted by researchers at Florida State...

NARA enters new "ERA" of electronic records management: National Archives' initiatives focus on preserving and providing access to electronic records.(ARCHIVIST VIEW)(National Archives and Records Administration)
September 1, 2005... For many years the primary focus of the National Archives was preserving pieces of parchment and paper that had been created during more than two centuries of America's government. In that environment, the National Archives and Records...

Software helps enforce retention policies.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... Trusted Edge has released RM Edge[TM] 2.5 for Microsoft Exchange, a program which enables companies to establish, administer, and enforce retention and records management policies for all desktop-created documents and e-mails, thereby improving...

Program allows web interface for databases.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... Universal Data Solutions has released ASPRunner Professional 3.2, an enterprise solution that web-enables corporate databases. It creates sets of ASP pages to access and modify Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, DB2, and Sybase databases....

Improved web services marks new editor.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... Belus Technology has released Version 1.6 of XStandard, a standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop- and browser-based content management systems. The new version of XStandard focuses on improvements to web services that speed...

New system simplifies e-doc management.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... DocuLex has introduced ArchiveStudio, a simplified electronic document management system enabling small- and mid-size businesses ease of information organization and access. ArchiveStudio's complete system comprises two programs--Goby Capture...

New storage solution features compact packaging, speed.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... SATABoy[TM] has joined Nexsan Technologies' line of data storage devices. The highly scalable SATABoy cost-effectively stores large amounts of information online, such as fixed content and reference data, which can be used for disk-to-disk...

New utility groups files by probing names and attributes.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... Punspace has launched FileCategorizer v 1.0, a Windows utility that categorizes and groups files automatically based on intelligent probing of the files' names and attributes. FileCategorizer uses intelligent algorithms to categorize the fries...

Software provides disk encryption.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... Dekart has released version 1.22 of Dekart Private Disk Multifactor, its disk encryption software. Private Disk protects confidential information by creating virtual encrypted partitions (drive letters). The encrypted information can be...

IRISPdf aids conversion of scanned documents to electronic data.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
September 1, 2005... I.R.I.S. Group has released IRISPdf 4.0, an advanced OCR production tool that enables the conversion of scanned documents into electronic data and supplies document management systems with appropriate file formats. IRISPdf4.0 is available in...

The why and how of international records retention.
September 1, 2005... For a multinational organization with global business operations, records retention for its overseas business units is just as important as it is for its domestic operations. Unless the overseas units have well-developed and aggressively...

Blogs: the new information revolution? RIM professionals have an opportunity to provide leadership and guidance in the development of policies to ensure that blogs are managed as records.(Records and Information Management)
September 1, 2005... Weblogs, or blogs, constitute a significant new development in the information world. They're taking the business world by storm. From the perspective of records and information management (RIM) professionals, they present unprecedented...

Mining for information gold: data mining offers the RIM professional an opportunity to contribute to knowledge discovery in databases in a substantial way.
September 1, 2005... During the late 1980s, several trends in computing, including the emergence of client-server technology, the growing popularity of structured query language (SQL), the gravity of "the islands of information" problem, and the inaccessibility of...

RIM professionals: a distinct personality? A study reveals that records and information management (RIM) professionals exhibit particular personality traits, which should aid those making hiring and career decisions.(Career Path)
September 1, 2005... As a discipline, records and information management (RIM) professionals are not much given to introspection. "Why do I like doing records-related work?" "What makes someone attracted to records management or archives management?" "What personal...

Risk analysis and control: vital to records protection: identifying and preventing risk is smart business practice. This excerpt from Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice gives the fundamentals of assessing risk in your records operations, putting a prevention plan in place, and auditing that plan for compliance.(ManagementWise)
September 1, 2005... Risk analysis determines and evaluates the exposure of vital records to specific risks. Its outcome provides the basis for protection planning and other records management decisions. A thorough risk analysis begins with the identification of...

Seeking information warriors.(Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... TITLE: Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp AUTHOR: Randolph A. Kahn and Barclay T. Blair ISBN: 0-89258-408-4 PUBLISHER: Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM International) ...

50th Annual Conference and Expo * Navy Pier * Chicago * September 18-21, 2005.(special section)(Association of Records Managers and Administrators)
September 1, 2005... arma'05:chicago celebrating 50 years focusing on the business and technology of managing records and information arma'05: chicago feel the excitement! Chicago is the place to be September 18-21, as ARMA International...

ARMA International Expo * Navy Pier Festival Hall * Chicago * September 18-20, 2005.(expo guide)(Association of Records Managers and Administrators)
September 1, 2005... arma'05: expo showcasing the business and technology of managing records and information. 50th annual conference & exposition September 18-21, 2005 focusing on the business and technology of managing records and information ...

ARMA'05: conference schedule: all events located at the Navy Pier Festival Hall unless otherwise noted.
September 1, 2005... Friday, 9/16 Pre-conference Seminars (Hyatt Regency) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, 9/17 Pre-conference Seminars (Hyatt Regency) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Region Meetings (Hyatt Regency) 1:00 p.m.-2:30...

Industry intelligence sessions on the show floor, aisle 200.
September 1, 2005... Brought directly to you, on the show floor (aisle 200) and free-of-charge, these sessions will answer the most critical and specific questions you have about managing information and records. Get real answers from the vendors who know what the...

Technology application briefings on the show floor, aisle 200.(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... The Technology Application Briefings are presented by leading vendors of records and information management technology exhibiting at the ARMA 2005 Expo. These 50-minute briefings provide a great opportunity to discover the most hands-on,...

Prizes & giveaways.(Celebrate 50 Years Chicago Style)
September 1, 2005... Prize Drawings at the ARMA International booth (1027) Enter to win by completing the prize drawing entry form (included in your attendee bag). Prize drawings will be held at the ARMA booth (1027) during the program breaks on Sunday,...

Program sponsors.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Anacomp * Co-sponsor, Grand Opening Welcome Luncheon in the Expo Hall ArchivesOne * Co-sponsor, Grand Opening Welcome Luncheon in the Expo Hall * Conference Handout Book * Travel Sewing Kits for attendee bags ...

ARMA '05: exhibitor profile.(Directory)(Illustration)
September 1, 2005... 3M RFID Tracking Solutions 1529 Contact: Shelly Niebur 3M Center, Bldg 225-4N-14 St. Paul, MN 55144 Phone: 651.733.8141 The 3M RFID Tracking System gives you the tools and technology to...

Arma'05: exhibitor list.(Illustration)
September 1, 2005... 3M RFID Tracking Solutions 1529 A.S.R.S, of America/Elecompak 608 ABBYY USA Software House Inc. 1331 Access Sciences Corp. ...

Arma'05:product category.(Illustration)
September 1, 2005... Affiliate Groups/Associations Access Sciences Corp. (formerly Access Information Associates) 1420 ARMA International 1027 CENSA/GERA ...