Information Research Weblog

This article was posted to the RMAA (Records Management Association of Australia) listserv, with the comment "Strange to see the popular press (albeit in the US) show an interest in records management and archives issues".

An interesting site for those interested in Information Management, Content Management and Records Management is a site by Rick Barry. There is a massive amount of information on there, and personally I find it confusing to navigate, but then I also don't profess to be expert at searching the web.

I did see somewhere on there that Rick has admitted the site has expanded faster than he could keep up with to catalogue it, so hopefully he'll get time to have a look at it some time. However, don't take that as a criticism - it does have excellent information on it and is well worth wading through to find all the gems.

Ah, I was just about to give you some examples of pages on his site, but it's all in frames, so go hunting ...

Thanks to Grahame Gould for drawing attention to a Canadian government Web site with some interesting links to various documents on Web portal policies. The page gives links to other sites which cover Architecture, Focus Studies and Public Opinion Research, Case Studies, Portal Examples, Content Management, and Strategies and Implementation.

The site also includes pages on other useful information management topics such as: Classification, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies, Electronic Publishing, and Records & Document Management.

I don't know how many of you are interested in RM issues, but it's the area of "Information Management" in which I work, so sorry if you couldn't care less about it - skip to the next post. :-) http://www.rmaa.com.au/ is the home page for the Records Management Association of Australia and they have a listserv which you can join by going to http://listserver.cowan.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/rmaa and the archive of previous posts is found at http://listserver.cowan.edu.au/pipermail/rmaa/