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ISO 38500:2008 IT Governance

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The International Organization for Standards has produced a guideline for governance of information technology. It is a framework of principles for decision flows on: Responsibility, Strategy, Acquisition, Performance, Conformance, and Human Behavior that draws, as so many do, from the Australian Standards, in this case, AS 8015. (Where would IM be without Canada in the 80s-90s and Australia in the 90s-20s?)

As with any standard, the effort to interpret and achieve compliance must fit within the overall governance and operational context.

When technologies become relics, what happens to the data?

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Experts worry that items preserved in digital form may not be readily accessible in the future because the equipment and software needed to read them will become obsolete.

Recent scandals in the USA provoke this New York Time article on accountability in government. But it's not just government that faces this challenge.

Familiar "massive failure" begs for RIM expertise

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The unsecured details of 10,000 prolific offenders and data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales are at issue in yet another example of failure to grasp that records management is fundamental. IT security is a must, but the scandals including the Andersen/Enron debacle, the recent Broadcom vs. Qualcomm and Hong Kong's own Hospital Authority breaches are more about governance, managerial competency building and the organisational culture's valuing of accurate, evidence-based practice.

Preservation

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Preservation is an applied science that is focused on maintaining characteristics of an artefact (such as information in physical or digital form) with minimal degradation. Characteristics may include physical state (as in preserving the viability of a document of long term value) or meaning (as in the authenticity of the content of a record).

Fixity

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Fixity is a verifiable quality of information. Data and information about the quality of fixity is used to ensure that there has been no undocumented alteration of digital or other information.

The attributes of fixity differ for various record media. For example, fixity in a hard copy or paper record may include considerations of the claimed date of creation as compared to the chemical composition of the media. Similarly, the physical impression of a signature is verifiable against other signature impressions to confirm authenticity.

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