Tuesday, 17 November 2009

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 through the life of the project as we come across material through various channels. It also incorporates items suggested or brought to our notice by AC+erm participants and well-wishers.

As before, the list includes official, professional and commercial institutions and organisations; publishers of journals and books in our disciplines, and various individual items such as articles, reports and similar documentary materials. The selection of the latter is particularly subject to the list's ad hoc process of formation – our main instrument for identifying material of this nature is the project's Systematic Literature Review, and the examples presented in the resource list are very much subsidiary to this far more substantial and rigorous undertaking.

We have also added another distinct category of resource to reflect the rapidly moving nature of the field. Much innovative thought in the records and information field is now first published to the world through blogs maintained by individual practitioners rather than by more formal routes: the revised list contains links to a number of prominent blogs and bloggers.

The earlier versions of the list were presented in straightforward alphabetical order, but as it is now rather long, we have divided the new version into a number of categories for easier use. A basic index has been provided, as well as improved presentation and navigation. We have checked out all the existing links and repaired them where necessary.

You can find the resource list on our website at: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/ceispdf/resourcelist_2009_11.pdf

The online resources from the list have been added to the AC+erm custom Google search engine, which is intended to improve the relevance of search results by focusing only on records-related websites.



Quick links to the online sources are now available through a set of Sqworl groups – links are grouped according to the same categories as used in the main list. If you haven't used Sqworl before, it is a useful tool for grouping ultiple links under one URL; it also provides a pleasant graphic interface using small snapshots of the sites linked to, rather than the standard bare blue underlined text.

Feel free to let us know if you think there are any glaring omissions from the list, or anything else that might usefully be added to it.

1 comment:

records management said...

There has been a hoard of using automated programs arrange and store all the records. All the operations are carried out with the use of in an efficient way. I too have experienced the same thing and do suggest everyone to make use of such kind of programs too.

 
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