International visitors @ Northumbria University
A few weeks ago we were delighted to host a visit from Dr Joanne Evans, Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne University, Australia who gave a lunchtime seminar on 'Discovery and...
View ArticleProcess Facet e-Delphi Study outputs: Round 1 – Summary of participant responses
The interim analysis of responses received to the first round of questions under the e-Delphi study on the Process facet of the project is now available on our website.In Round 1 of the e-Delphi Study,...
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Third AC+erm Colloquium – Tackling the Technology Issues Together
Project Colloquium24 September 2009The Merchants’ Hall, Edinburgh22 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 2EP"RM is something that should be done not something that can be bought and installed."(Participant in...
View ArticleAC+erm ‘Expert Adviser’ appointed to Australia’s Government 2.0 Taskforce
We were alerted recently, through a posting to the Aus-Archivists listserv, that Adrian Cunningham of the National Archives of Australia has been included in a new Government 2.0 Taskforce. Adrian is,...
View ArticleThe RAIN-man Cometh
Wednesday 8 July 4:00–5.30pmRoom NB450 (4th Floor) Northumberland Building, Northumbria University ‘Compliance Products for Information, Content and Records Management’Peter Kurilecz, Senior Systems...
View ArticleNew SharePoint study
Members of the AC+erm project team and two other colleagues outside the University have just started work on a new project to investigate the uptake and use of Microsoft SharePoint by Higher Education...
View ArticleArchives in the 21st Century: A brief report from the Society of Archivists...
Last week, I was at the (UK) Society of Archivists Conference in Bristol to deliver a paper on the AC+erm Project. It was, alas, literally a flying visit, and travel constraints prevented me from...
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AC+erm in Autumn ... an update
Now that the 'Summer' is over, we've got a few more bits of reading to help you while away those darkening Autumn evenings.We have added the results of Round 4 of the Systems and Technology e-Delphi...
View ArticleSharePoint in UK Higher Education - Community Consultation
A reminder of the deadline for the community consultation that is part of a project commissioned by Eduserv on the use of SharePoint in the HE sector (www.northumbria.ac.uk/sharepoint_study) – Monday 9...
View Article2009 Emmett Leahy Award
The Emmett Leahy Award Committee has announced that Mariella Guercio is the recipient of the 2009 award “because of the impact her work has had on the management and preservation of electronic...
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A Vision for ERM? Third AC+erm colloquium – Outputs
We have just posted some outputs from the third colloquium for the AC+erm Project to our website. We would welcome any comments you may wish to make on these outputs or on any other aspect of the...
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List of electronic recordkeeping resources
We have overhauled our annotated compilation of websites and documents relating to various aspects of electronic recordkeeping. It is not a comprehensive list, but one that has grown organically...
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Witness Seminar: Transforming Information & Records Management through...
12:00–18:00, 4 March 2010, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon TyneThe fourth and final AC+erm colloquium will take the form of a Witness Seminar, to be held on ‘home turf’ in the Great Hall of...
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Investigation into the use of Microsoft SharePoint by Higher Education...
The final report from this Eduserv funded project is now freely available for download at www.northumbria.ac.uk/sharepoint_study It shows that most UK HEIs are using SharePoint to some extent (78% of...
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Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
Last Friday (29th January), I attended this excellent conference / symposium organized by postgraduate students from HATII (the Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute) and elsewhere...
View ArticleRecords Management Myths and Legends
Continued Communication, a Northumbria University led action research group, is running two storytelling sessions for separate groups in central London (British Library Conference Centre) on Monday 1st...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010
A preview of SharePoint 2010 at a breakfast briefing hosted by Rocket Solutions (www.rocket-solutions.com) in wet Newcastle this morning revealed some exciting new features. Integration with...
View ArticleYou too can contribute to AC+erm!
Would you like to help us in a ‘mass peer-review’ exercise to help validate some of our research findings? As part of the AC+erm project, we have carried out a systematic literature review (SLR) of...
View ArticleFinal AC+erm Colloquium – Witness Seminar
Last Thursday (5th March), we held the last in our series of project colloquia as a Witness Seminar called Transforming Information & Records Management through Research & Development. A group...
View ArticleProject outputs – Vignettes
One of the objectives of the AC+erm Project is to develop vignettes – a type of output that crystallises aspects of the research findings in the form of tools or exemplars that can be of use to...
View ArticleContinued Communication Project – Collaborate in creating a mind map for RM...
Continued Communication is an international multidisciplinary group investigating communications in the 21st century, conceived and led by ELizabeth Lomas as part of her PhD research with Northumbria...
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AC+erm in Iceland at IRMA
I was delighted to be invited to speak to members of Iceland’s Records Management Association about the AC+erm Project last week. Nearly 100 members heard our first presentation post the official end...
View ArticleLaunch of new research project
Northumbria University launches the ‘DATUM for health’ research project on the 1st October. This collaborative project will develop a research data management skills programme for postgraduate research...
View ArticleDATUM in Action - follow on to DATUM project
Following on from our successful ‘DATUM for health’ project we are currently mid-way through our DATUM in Action project. Julie McLeod, Sue Childs and Elizabeth Lomas are working with a team of...
View ArticleDLM Conference 2011, Brussels
Attended the triennial DLM conference last week. The theme was 'Interoperability and MoReq2010 - Making intelligent information control a reality'. There were some excellent presentations/sessions and...
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