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Interview with Richard Blake

Richard Blake from the National Archives of the UK kindly accepted the invitation to talk about collaboration between the DLM Forum and the ICA, and summarized ICA-Req.

Moreq 2 as a vehicle for best practice in records management: establishing a solid platform for future collaboration

At the beginning of the session, Marc Fresko made a distinction between the past and the future of Moreq 2. About the past, Jef Schram from the European Commission wrote “Moreq 2: development of a European standard” in which the author describes the history of Moreq, DLM Forum and the European Commission, and Moreq Governance. [...]

Interview with Marc Fresko

Marc Fresko, Project Leader of Moreq 2, gently accepted the invitation to talk about Moreq 2, the future of Moreq, and collaboration with the ICA.

Interview with Professor Eric Ketelaar

Eric Ketelaar, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, kindly accepted to share his knowledge about the competences of record professionals in the digital age and the challenges faced today in the profession.

Interview with Jason R. Baron

Jason Baron, Director of Litigation from the US National Archives and Records Administration, kindly accepted the request to speak about e-discovery. During the interview, Jason shared his views and experience about the balance between what to keep and legal compliance, risk management and change management, and the role of the Archivist of the future.

NARA’s Conceptual Framework for Preserving Electronic Records

There was a time when NARA’s former conceptual framework for preserving electronic records worked well. Electronic records sent to NARA were products of mainframe databases in ASCII. This situation changed with the developments and use of information and communication technologies, volume of digital information and diversity of documents in multiple formats. In order to address [...]

The digital repository: multifunctional portal to government information

The National Archives in The Netherlands is responsible for ensuring the long-term preservation of paper records and digital records. Increasingly, the Government is working with digital records and the National Archives has to address several challenges. Currently, the National Archives stores 7 terabytes of digital records, in particular text records, websites and databases, whereas 17 [...]

The Welcome Cocktail

Mr. Andreas Kellerhals, President of the Scientific Committee and Director of the Swiss Federal Archives, made the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving opening speech during the Welcome Cocktail that was held at the Conference Center in Geneva (CICG). He emphasized the importance of digital and non-digital archives in our societies, no matter the form [...]