Recent Real Story Group Blog Entries. Thinking Records. RIM Professionals Australasia. Paying lip service to the user. Since my last post on the need to rebalance our approach to records management around the needs of the user I have been doing a little research of the RM literature on the subject. Admittedly this has been confined to the Records Management Journal (as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board I have easy access to it!)
But looking through the back issues of 20 years for articles relating to RM system implementation has still proved an interesting exercise. I guess I should say at the outset (if not already obvious) that this was no formal literature review, but it at least helped contextualise some of my own thoughts, observations and anecdotatal evidence. I found 7 papers relating to RM system implementation; most, if not all, it has to be said, relating specifically to EDRMS and I guess this focus has to be borne in mind when making any generalised assumptions. Biagio and Ibricu (RMJ Vol 18 No.3) inadvertently made an interesting point when they stated: So my point? Recordkeeping Roundtable | A recordkeeping and archives discussion group. Digital Landfill. A new generation of cloud-based content sharing tools has emerged, demonstrating how much simpler it can be to share files with any partner or outside team, either by storing them in a common-access area in the cloud, or by synchronizing content between two computers or devices via the cloud.
Most of these “file share and sync” applications have adopted a “mobile first” approach. Along the way, some added social elements such as comment streams and shared wikis. Given their “easy start” approach, these services have been readily adopted as a way for project teams to share and communicate - frequently operating under the radar of the IT department. Many on-premise collaboration and content management system suppliers have responded by establishing cloud-only versions of their product, or extending their on-premise system into a hybrid cloud model.
Others allow these new cloud collaboration services to synchronize back to established on-premise ECM systems.