Posts Tagged ‘Digital’
Digital Privacy Unplugged
California continues to be very progressive with their digital privacy laws. This interesting information came from WIRED in their article, “California Now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law.” The Electronic Communications Privacy Act bars any state law enforcement agency or other investigative entity from compelling a business to turn over any metadata or digital communications—including…
Read MoreArchiving History
The new year starts differently for everyone. For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, it begins with the daunting task of computerizing municipal records. Well, he is not personally taking on the task, but his administration is scanning millions of papers that have been stored away in private warehouses throughout the city and in New…
Read MoreProper Records Management Practices
There have been some concerns in the Australian government information-handling in the transition to a digital records management system. This interesting topic was brought to us by Lexology in their article, “Records management refresher: Make sure you’re not a paper dinosaur or a digital disaster.” The concerns aren’t limited to just them however. It is typical…
Read MoreDigitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking
The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and atlases formerly owned by King George III. The British Library is approximately one quarter through the very large project and plans to put the whole collection online for open access once the…
Read MoreDigital Records Poses Challenges
Archivists’ job in New Zealand has substantially gotten more difficult as they struggle to manage digital records that are multiplying by the second. ZDNet brought this news to us in their article, “‘Born-digital’ records a minefield for archivists.” Unfortunately, the digital records that are being produced do not include the ones that in fact were mandated…
Read MoreLooking for the Data
The Perseus Book Group and R. R. Donnelley have partnered together to improve the management and distribution of the metadata of Perseus titles and those of its 600 publisher distribution clients. Publishers Weekly brought this news to us in their article, “Perseus, R.R. Donnelley Team Up to Create Global Metadata Platform.” The new joint metadata platform…
Read MoreEngaging the Digital Customer
Digital media technology firm Komli Media has launched a new company focusing on mobile app re-engagement for marketers. The Economic Times brought this news to our attention in their article, “Digital media technology firm Komli Media launches new company.” The new company, RevX, has built a core set of performance advertising technologies in the programmatic and mobile…
Read MoreDigital in 2016
As we near the end of another year, predictions are beginning for what 2016 holds for us in the technology realm. Forbes magazine brought this interesting information to us in their article, “6 Predictions About The Future Of Digital Transformation.” One hot topic is digital strategy. According to Forrester, only 27% of today’s businesses have a…
Read MoreThe Trend in Reading
The popularity of e-books continues to rise and it isn’t surprising that the number of print book readers has dropped from the previous year. What is surprising is that the number of e-book readers has remained flat. Does this mean that book readers in general have decreased in numbers? This interesting information was brought to us…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Divests NICEM Information Assets
Access Innovations is proud to announce the sale of its publishing arm, the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM) to Graham Carter-Dimmock. Graham’s expertise and experience includes audio and video production, localization and marketing, database design and electronic publishing. He has been involved in NICEM project development on several occasions over the years. NICEM…
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