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For immediate release: July 17, 2007 Contact: Shawn Karrick
NASCIO Releases Part II in a Series on Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation
(Lexington, KY) – The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), which represents the chief information officers (CIOs) of the states, released Part II in its series on electronic records management and digital preservation. Part II in the series is now available at: www.nascio.org/publications.
The series presents current issues, challenges and recommendations for action. Part II in this series focuses on economic, legal, and organizational issues and recommended actions for State CIOs related to electronic records management and the preservation born digital content.
Electronic records management and digital preservation are necessary disciplines for managing the knowledge assets of the enterprise. Attention to these disciplines must be part of every IT investment decision. The lifecycle of “born digital” is presented with emphasis on the decision making process at each major phase.
“Managing electronic records is really the management of knowledge assets. This essential resource must receive the proper level of attention in investment and project management decisions. Without proper planning and the necessary partnering with experts from legal, records management, archiving, and enterprise architecture, this asset can expose the enterprise to undue risk – not only in potential litigation risk, but also the risk of losing valuable enterprise knowledge,” said Dr. Jim Bryant, CIO, state of South Carolina.
“We‘re very serious about developing the necessary attention to electronic records management and digital preservation issues. We are publishing this series of research reports in order to advise the state CIOs regarding the issues and calls to action,” said Steve Fletcher, CIO, state of Utah.
Part III in the series will focus on technology issues for managing digital assets, including emerging solutions and the relationship to Enterprise Architecture.
NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information resource executives and managers from the 50 states, six U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. State members are senior officials from any of the three branches of state government who have executive-level and statewide responsibility for information resource management. Representatives from federal, municipal, and international governments and state officials who are involved in information resource management but do not have chief responsibility for that function participate in the organization as associate members. Private-sector firms and non-profit organizations may join as corporate members.
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For more information from NASCIO, please contact Shawn Karrick, NASCIO Membership & Communications Coordinator, at (859) 514-9156 or skarrick@AMRms.com or Eric Sweden, NASCIO Enterprise Architect, at (859) 514-9189 or esweden@AMRms.com.
AMR Management Services provides NASCIO’s executive staff. For more information about AMR visit http://www.AMRms.com/.
