Access and Feeds

Yearly Archives: 2006

Paper-based Records Management is slow to Change

By Dick Weisinger

One interesting twist stands out from a recent AIIM  report that shows the results of a survey made among 741 end users involved with information management: eRecords Management policies are still lagging when compared to policies in place for dealing with

Gadgets Unbind from Portals

By Dick Weisinger

The concept of a web Portal as a framework for integrating information from many different sources into one consolidated view has been popular for some time.  Portals are typically composed of pluggable user-interface components called portlets or gadgets.  Portlets are powered

Embedded Document MetaData

By Dick Weisinger

There was a blog here a few months back about PDF/A, a version of Adobe’s PDF file format that is intended to be used for long-term document archival.  AIIM recently updated their FAQ about PDF/A, and it provides good information.

Data Access up in the Air

By Dick Weisinger

Two announcements over the last couple of days stand in an interesting contrast to each other.  One is Google’s announcement of Google WiFi and the availability of free WiFi access across all of the city of Mountain View.  The second is Boeing’s announcement

XBRL: Financial Content Management Language

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last week Jon Udell of InfoWorld has had a podcast and a number of blog entries about XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language).  Since 2000, many have expected to see a revolution in the accounting and financial industry because