Information handling in offices and archives

Information handling in offices and archives

Author: Angelika Menne-Haritz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-11-21

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 3111503364

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Defines basic archival problems by comparing and contrasting European and American experiences regarding the introduction of modern information technologies to public administrations.


How to Implement a Digital Archive Information Management System. A Case Study of the Ugandan Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives

How to Implement a Digital Archive Information Management System. A Case Study of the Ugandan Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives

Author: Philbert Geoffrey Obuchel

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 3346161536

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Library Science, Information- / Documentation Science, grade: 1.00, , course: Bachelor of Information Techology, language: English, abstract: This study is concerned with developing an Archives Information Management System for the Ugandan MTIC ( Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives)that will enable a fully automated archive service. Electronic Records Management involves a comprehensive and structured approach to the long term management of records as tools for the efficient and effective delivery of community and organizations. For an organization to manage its records efficiently all files owned by the organization must be stored somewhere and recorded in the organization’s records management system either manual or electronic. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives is still using the manual file based system to store their files. The Archives Information Management System is a computer based storage system for keeping important files. The manual system employed by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives involves the physical movement and storage of files into the registry and later to the archive. This method wastes time, and is characterized by errors and loss of files among others, so the researcher has developed a system that can capture all file details before the files are sent to the national archive. Therefor, this study is structured as follows: It starts of by giving a short literature review on this topic before laying out it’s general methodology- Chapter four is concerned with the study design and the implementation of the new system. A special focus hereby is laid upon the training and unit testing. Chapter five concludes the study with a final recommendation.


History and Electronic Artefacts

History and Electronic Artefacts

Author: Edward Higgs

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780198236337

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We are now entering a world of electronic communications where an increasing amount of contemporary information is created and retained only in electronic form. How will such unstable flows of information be preserved for future historians? Will the future have a past? Will the history of ourcontemporary world be lost to our descendants? History and Electronic Artefacts is the first publication to examine the implications of this revolution for historical research. Historians are used to handling paper and parchment record in archives. These are actual pieces of correspondence which passed between historical actors. They are alsorelatively stable artefacts which can be preserved easily. Two factors introduced by the electronic revolution threaten the existence of paper archives: the dissociation between information content and the media by which it is transmitted ruptures the solidity of the archival object. The ability tostore electronic information anywhere and access it remotely via networks could make the central paper archive redundant. Experts from the fields of information management and technology, data archiving, library science, as well as historians, consider the issues raised in depth. The authors also place a unique emphasis on European developments.