ESI: An episode on cross disciplinarity
In a surprisingly timely fashion, BS 10008: Evidential Weight and Legal Admissibility of Electronic Information has just been published (Dec 2008) and the marketing literature poses questions like:
- How do you minimize the risks involved with the long-term storage of electronic information?
- Does your organization have a policy for the safeguarding of all types of electronic information?
This session attempts to explore the issues relating to Electronically Stored Information (ESI) and the current and potential benefits that Digital Forensics (DF) brings to this arena. Many of the technological and societal changes that have affected RM so profoundly impact similarly on DF. The blurring of lines between security, risk, audit, law, technology and Records and Information Management further complicate the current landscape.
RM has re-examined its role in ensuring that digital records are captured, maintained and preserved for the use of the creating individual/organisation and wider society. It has evolved from a relatively passive role of accepting records to be stored at the semi-current stage to one of actively influencing system design and active life of the record. Equally, DF is "transitioning from an investigative and response mechanism to one of prevention, compliance and assurance" (Barbin and Patzakis). Focusing specifically on DF and RM, (their respective professional identities, ongoing boundary realignment and cross disciplinary approaches), the session highlights the challenges of the complex technological nature of their fields and the increasingly legal focus on what they do.
Summary: A brief overview of the context in which RM and DF operate, the principles and practice of DF, the perceived relationship with RM and potential cross disciplinary approaches to ensuring relevant data is authentic, reliable, usable and possesses integrity.
Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher, Aberystwyth UniversityKirsten Ferguson-Boucher lecturers in Records Management at Aberystwyth University, both taught courses and the distance learning modules. She read Classics at Edinburgh (1988) and has Post Graduate qualifications in Leisure Policy and Practice from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and RM from... more...
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