Articles by Laurie Varendorff ARMA of the Varendorff Records Management Consultancy - TVC - Helping clients manage their e-world.
Laurie has written a number of articles in respect to records & information management -
RIM activities, which have been published nationally and internationally. Some of these articles are available
online @
- Is Disposition = Retention & Disposal the only thing that Records & Information Management - RIM is about? - July 2008
- 2007 - A watershed year for the Micrographic / Imaging Industry - March 2008
- The Cavalry has, or is arriving on the Records and Information Management - RIM Scene after twenty fife (25) years of Digital Amnesia - July 2006
- Misconceptions in the records management fraternity - January 2006
- Fact or Fiction? - A new evolutionary digital data storage process - January 2006
- Proofing of Scanned-Imaged Documentation of all sizes - December 2005
- Records and Information Management - RIM Horror stories! - November 2005
- The interdependency of Records and Information Management (RIM) and Information Technology & Telecommunications (IT & T) or Information Technology & Communications (IT & C) - November 2005
- Why should we scan/image documents? - November 2005
- Potential opportunities for Outsource Providers e.g. Records Centers Offsite Document Storage Providers - November 2005
- e-mail, THE ENEMY! - November 2005
- You are not going to tell me that e-mails are records are you? - November 2005
- Why the Americans are beating the Australians at Records Management! - April 2005
- How can the application of RFID technology add value to my Records Center Operations? - February 2005
- Digital Recordkeeping Initiative at the National Archives of Australia - NAA - also published as - Well Preserved - January / February 2005
- Records Management RM and Findability, Searchability or Discovery, which is the most appropriate term?- January 2005
- An ancient solution to a modern problem - September 2004
- Microfilm, the stuff of comics, or real day to day business activity? - September 2004
- The microfilm dynamics in Universities, Libraries, Archives and Genealogy centres is changing, or has changed from the standard format that has been in place for the last 60 to 70 years - July 2004
- Analogue only, Digital only, Analogue to Digital and Digital to Analogue - May 2004
- Trojan Horse Programs - Is this the Records and Archive Management Armageddon? - March 2004
- Taxonomy - thesauri, thesaurus or thesauruses - ontology - functional thesauri - business classification schemes - information architecture - metadata - metatags - controlled vocabularies - naming conventions - facet analysis - spatial data - faceted classification system, etc - January 2004
- Ill take a bet that microfilm cant do that - December 2003
- It is now OFFICIAL! MICROFILM LASTS 500 YEARS! - Oct 2003
- Where have all the innovators gone? - August 2003
- The search for the elusive Records Management - Silver Bullet - July 2003
- What is Records Management? - July 2003
- The story behind the process of lobbying for the passage of the Western Australian State Records Act 2000 - June 2003
- Micrographics Down Under - June 2003
- Born Digital - May 2003
- Is records management to be the next new buzzword? - April 2003
- Records Management, Information Management, Knowledge Management or Content Management Software - what is you preference? - March 2003
- Scanning for legal needs - September 2002
- RFID A Wireless 'Smart Glass' That Knows When You Need a Drink - May 2002
- Taxonomy Thesaurus Classification Indexing - April 2002
- Now that you've scanned... - January 2002
- Microfilm Longevity (LE) - November 2001
- Quality Control of Document Imaging or Scanning - September 2001
- Microfiche vs Microfilm - June 2001
The author, Laurie Varendorff gives permission for the redistribution or republishing of the above listed articles by individuals and non profit professional organisations without cost based on the condition that he as well as the URL of the article are recognised at the introduction of the article when redistributed or republished.
SPECIAL NOTE: Use of the above listed articles by publishers, commercial, government, or educational organisations requires a financial agreement to be negotiated with Laurie as the copyright holder for this work.
