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Recruiter komt met talententest voor ICT'er
Opleider geeft les over opensourcesysteem
Hacker laat pinautomaat geld uitspuwen
Atos Benelux slinkt met 520 man sinds januari
ICTU en Logius gaan nieuw DigiD bouwen
Nieuwe zwart/wit-printer van Xerox
Securitygevolgen van 'Consumerization of IT'
TMC stelt nieuwe bestuurder aan
ICT-dienstverlener eert beheerder met website
Helft MKB'ers weet niet wat cloud computing is
Winst Capgemini Benelux stijgt bij omzetdaling
Wat voor performance bedoelt u eigenlijk?
SAP benoemt Nederlander tot mentor
Virtuele kantoren getest in drie delen
Dealer verantwoordelijk voor softwarekwaliteit
ADV: Plaats je CV op Computable Banen…
De harde waarheid over softskills en social media
E-Records Education/My Teaching Plans
Many archivists want to retool for e-records work. Unfortunately, most of the current training options don’t offer a sustained opportunity to reflect, absorb, and apply new knowledge. Webinars and three day workshops have their place, but, frankly, it takes me much, much longer than that to absorb anything of value from so complex a literature. That, in the end, is why I decided to focus my main teaching and service efforts through a medium other than short workshops.
Starting in mid-September, I will be teaching the on-line/distance ed course “Electronic Records Management,” through the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee. Over the next weeks, I’ll be reviewing the excellent curriculum, developed by the prior instructor, Mark Conrad, and supplementing it with findings from my own work.
If you are interested in engaging with E-records issues in a sustained fashion, it is not too late to register for the course, which begins Sept 20th and last through mid-December. Simply go to the Continuing Professional Development Page on the CAIS website, download an application form, and send it in!
I know I am self interested in saying this, but the CAIS programs really do offer excellent value for money. Again, speaking to my own interest, I would benefit by having full enrollment in the course (it is capped at 15), since I learn a great deal from the experiences students bring to bear when I teach. Finally, I would mention that CAIS includes a strong international focus, and has been commended, both under the University of Dundee’s internal quality assurance process and the Society of Archivists accreditation process . So, even though it may seem a bit out of the mainstream of US archival ed programs–you might want to consider it. The cost is similar or even less on a per course basis. More to the a point, the programs, in my opinion, are second to none.
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Brain Dead Email Clients (Outlook)
A few weeks ago, I developed an email preservation guidelines template for distribution to records creators. The document aimed to assist them in managing email to make it ‘archives-ready’. Looks like I’ll need to add a new recommendation, specific to MS Outlook.
As I noted in my original post, Outlook includes a number of frustrating features that work against digital preservation best practice, such an auto-archive function that writes files to a proprietary non-standard but documented format (edited 7/29; see comment below) and deletes what it assumes to be unnecessary messages. Here is another one: If you follow the default settings and configure Outlook to read a Gmail account, it will delete all email from the Google server and transfer it to your desktop in the .pst format–as the screenshots below illustrate.
Unless you go into advanced settings–which 99% of users won’t do–you can’t set outlook up to connect to Gmail’s IMAP Server. But wait, it gets worse–the tool that Outlook uses to configure the connection sets it up so that the POP server does not leave message on Gmail’s server!
Sure, it’s possible to set it up for IMAP connection, which I did, but how many average users are going to do this???
Bottom line: if your uncle Harry were to use this, he’d find all of Gmail erased from his server and downloaded automatically to his desktop computer! Strike Two against MS for email preservation.

Tools ->Account Settings -> New

POP3 Account Appears!

Two Layers Deep into Advanced Settings: "Leave Messages on Server" unchecked by default
