Daniel Antion has an interesting and well thought out article called “Can Records Change” at the Association for Information and Image Management. His question details what we do about changes in data about a document, or metadata. I’m thrilled about him bringing up this topic; because it’s one I’m passionate about. Let’s think about some reasons this information changing and maybe we can shed some light on his question: The underlying document changed. This is probably one of the most common reasons for metadata changing; people make changes to documents all the time. The contents may...
In AIIM, Laurence Hart makes a number of comments about the Search vs Folders debate. Claim 1: People are used to folders, Rebuttal: They are used to search as well Not a good enough reason to stick with folders. By that logic we shouldn’t use search engines to access the Web, we should organise it into folders instead, just like Yahoo used to do. You see, people are also used to search engines, they use them every day of the week. In fact, more and more people are using search based idioms rather than folder based idioms to...