Back to the Future - RMS Conference 19-21 April 2009

It's good to read that Northumbria's research gets a mention in Martin Sanderson's review of the recent Records Management Society Conference - Back to the Future(http://blog.tfpl.com/tfpl/2009/05/records-management-society-conference-april-2009-back-to-the-future.html)

Rachel Hardiman gave a presentation on the AC+erm project, outlining what the project is about, how we are doing it and the type of outputs to date, including vignettes (or tools) we are drafting. She demonstrated the idea of scripting a training video with the first two AC+erm 'movie stars' - Lancelot and Guinevere - using xtranormal's free Text-to-Movie (TM) movie-making software (http://www.xtranormal.com/) She asked delegates for input to a short film aimed at records and information managers to get across ways in which to apply ERM methodologies that suit the users rather than themselves.

Some of Elizabeth Lomas' co-researchers gave a presentation around her PhD study called 'Continued Communication', which Martin highlights as "new and innovative action/participative research". Elizabeth also gave her own presentation on aligning records management, risk and information security standards and models, based on her extensive professional experience.

Reading reports like this helps us understand the impact the project is having and the feedback is important for the work we do to the end of the project. We'll try to respond to it. Thank you.