Shedding Light on The Coming Digital Dark Age: A Lawyer’s Perspective on Archival Strategies for Managing, Preserving, and Accessing Electronically Stored Information

Jason R. Baron
Director of Litigation, US National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, Maryland, USA

Lawyers around the word are increasingly engaged in the practice of e-discovery and e-disclosure, acting as an external driver of change within institutions, as the latter act, at least on a short-term basis, to collect, preserve, and provide access to a myriad of new forms of electronically stored information (ESI) in response to legal demands. To this end, lawyers and archivists share a common interest in pursuing strategies aimed at facilitating preservation and access to important documents, records and communications in electronic form, that otherwise remain inaccessible.

e-Discovery: Did You Know?

«What to keep» – revising the records management paradigm?

Oliver MORLEY
Acting Chief Executive, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, UK

Oliver Morley will outline the approach being taken in the UK to the question of what critical information should be kept, and the challenges that this approach poses in terms of behaviour, culture and skills, as well as in terms of changing paradigms.

L’archivage électronique, facteur de performance et de conformité des processus

Anne Burnel
Directrice, Service national des archives, Groupe La Poste
CP: F 501, 44 boulevard de Vaugirard, 75757 Paris CEDEX 15, France

Dans un contexte en évolution sur les plans réglementaire, économique et technique, la dématérialisation des processus nécessite d’intervenir en amont du cycle de vie des documents. Cette exigence conduit à repenser l’«offre» archivistique, à réévaluer les concepts et à élaborer une méthodologie et des outils adaptés. En retour, les exigences de l’archivage influent sur les processus de création et d’organisation de la production documentaire électronique, dont le large périmètre et la diversité constituent des défis stimulants pour notre profession.

In whose hands does the future of digital archiving lie?

Steve Bailey
Senior Adviser, JISC infoNet
3rd Floor, Hadrian House, Higham Place, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, NE1 8AF

This paper will explore the major trends influencing the way in which information is now created and stored and the impact these have on how it must subsequently be managed. In particular it will examine where the power now resides in this digital world and what this may mean for the role of the information professional of the future.