University of Glasgow

Effective Records Management Project


Workshops


Making Digital Documents Work : a review of the ERM project

Tuesday 31 October 2000, University of Glasgow

The objective of this event is to disseminate the findings of the University of Glasgow's Effective Records Management project. The project has focused on issues of managing those digital documents which form part of the administrative record of the university, particularly the documents created in the operation of the university's committees. All too often, such documents are created with insufficient consideration of their distribution, use, maintenance, storage and disposition. The project has sought to provide tools and promote techniques which enable document creators to address some of these shortcomings.

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Making Digital Documents Survive

Monday 15 May 2000, University of Glasgow

A large proportion of the information resource of HEIs is now created, stored, distributed and used in digital forms. Some of this information constitutes records: it acts as evidence of the institution's activities, and various agencies may require that this evidence is produced at some point in the future.

The characteristics of the digital environment present a new series of challenges to the records manager who must ensure that:

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Compliance Issues

Monday 13 September 1999, University of Glasgow

Compliance can be described as a regulatory requirement that defines what documentary evidence is required to prove that what has been done in the course of business meets expert scrutiny.

With what are you required to comply?

What are the main legislative issues that concern you?

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Making Digital Documents Work

Thursday 15 April 1999, University of Glasgow

The objective of this one day workshop is to identify the issues concerned with adding value to digital documents produced to support the administration of Universities, such as committee agendae, minutes and reports. The development of the day is intended to be progressive, identifying the problem, outlining some important underlying ideas, moving on to how these can relate to the environment within which people actually work and finally giving the participants the opportunity for wide-ranging discussion.

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This ERM project is based within the University of Glasgow Archives and Business Records Centre and is funded by the JISC Technology Applications Programme (JTAP).



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