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Resurgent phoenix It would be helpful for older and existing documents to be scanned by a third party vendor. As documents are created they can be scanned by the employee unless they are very large. As they are...
CitySolver Docs should be scanned by an external contractor in printing factory/digital warehouse. All docs could be backed up quickly without disruption to the inhouse government dept
CitySolver This is a great move for democratic government. Who controls what goes up for public access. Like newspapers, stories can be skewed by ommission as well as information
Terry Sweeney And while the IRS gets the wire-brush treatment here, it could have just as easily been the Veterans Administration, which isn't exactly a model of modernity or forward thinking when it comes to...
Terry Sweeney Document digitization by itself won't make a dent in this problem; if an IRS employee can't have more than 500MB of data on their computers, then there isn't really much a future where forward-thinking...
PeterJ I just did - thanks much. That's very helpful as I have some involvement in the process with the State of Rhode Island.
Resurgent phoenix Thanks for the comments Google michigans DTMB RECORDS MANAGEMENT STATE OF MICHIGAN. It gives a lot of information on the internal processes and business processes.
PeterJ I just wanted to return to that issue of volume of information given that indeed with more information collected tat there is naturally a greater amount to be maintained. I do think, though, that...
PeterJ The internal processes/business processes are at the core of identifying information/documents and ensuring the necessary steps in preserving that data/papers. I'm interested now in what Michigan...
PeterJ Your comment brings back some memories - and some three decades ago - when our state off site storage was about a half-mile away in an old manufacturing facility. Things have certainly changed.
PeterJ Yes - and speaking of embarrassment, the fine example of the IRS. The IRS, I'm sure, is much less tolerant of lost papers.
Resurgent phoenix Governments are working on document management. Preventing missing documents it is a process flow of checks and balances procedural and electronic.. You should google DTMB RECORDS MANAGEMENTS...
kq4ym But then the wisdom of data security notwithstanding, there's always going to be some percentage of errors made by humans, and unfortunately with the growing amounts of it, the losses inadvertantly...
Resurgent phoenix Content Management today and yesterday. I remember in the 80's when off site storage was down the street. We have come a long way and the Internet and how it stores data has helped get us here....
Resurgent phoenix It would be nice if everything that can be supplied by a Freedom of Information Act ( F.O.I.A.) request becomes open data. Imagine if someone made a F.O.I.A. request and were given a link as a...
kq4ym Yep, a noble plan and only logical that open data should prevail. But, getting there may be a very long journey. At least there is a plan, but it's going to be a messy trail getting to a truly open...
Toby That is certainly a noble sentiment. The fact that the public owns this data should make access to it a founding principle of any democratic society but too often it is kept it locked up...
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Resurgent phoenix It would be helpful for older and existing documents to be scanned by a third party vendor. As documents are created they can be scanned by the employee unless they are very large. As they are...
CitySolver Docs should be scanned by an external contractor in printing factory/digital warehouse. All docs could be backed up quickly without disruption to the inhouse government dept
CitySolver This is a great move for democratic government. Who controls what goes up for public access. Like newspapers, stories can be skewed by ommission as well as information
Terry Sweeney And while the IRS gets the wire-brush treatment here, it could have just as easily been the Veterans Administration, which isn't exactly a model of modernity or forward thinking when it comes to...
Terry Sweeney Document digitization by itself won't make a dent in this problem; if an IRS employee can't have more than 500MB of data on their computers, then there isn't really much a future where forward-thinking...
PeterJ I just did - thanks much. That's very helpful as I have some involvement in the process with the State of Rhode Island.
Resurgent phoenix Thanks for the comments Google michigans DTMB RECORDS MANAGEMENT STATE OF MICHIGAN. It gives a lot of information on the internal processes and business processes.
PeterJ I just wanted to return to that issue of volume of information given that indeed with more information collected tat there is naturally a greater amount to be maintained. I do think, though, that...
PeterJ The internal processes/business processes are at the core of identifying information/documents and ensuring the necessary steps in preserving that data/papers. I'm interested now in what Michigan...
PeterJ Your comment brings back some memories - and some three decades ago - when our state off site storage was about a half-mile away in an old manufacturing facility. Things have certainly changed.
PeterJ Yes - and speaking of embarrassment, the fine example of the IRS. The IRS, I'm sure, is much less tolerant of lost papers.
Resurgent phoenix Governments are working on document management. Preventing missing documents it is a process flow of checks and balances procedural and electronic.. You should google DTMB RECORDS MANAGEMENTS...
kq4ym But then the wisdom of data security notwithstanding, there's always going to be some percentage of errors made by humans, and unfortunately with the growing amounts of it, the losses inadvertantly...
Resurgent phoenix Content Management today and yesterday. I remember in the 80's when off site storage was down the street. We have come a long way and the Internet and how it stores data has helped get us here....
Resurgent phoenix It would be nice if everything that can be supplied by a Freedom of Information Act ( F.O.I.A.) request becomes open data. Imagine if someone made a F.O.I.A. request and were given a link as a...
kq4ym Yep, a noble plan and only logical that open data should prevail. But, getting there may be a very long journey. At least there is a plan, but it's going to be a messy trail getting to a truly open...
Toby That is certainly a noble sentiment. The fact that the public owns this data should make access to it a founding principle of any democratic society but too often it is kept it locked up...
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