Chapters 17/18 From our weekly chapter reading, digital preservation can be defined as the long-term, error-free storage of digital information,with means for retrieval and interpretation, for the entire time span the information is required to be retained.Though this assessment holds true to the authors, business organizations continue to face significant challenges in meeting their LTDP needs, especially those organizations whose primary mission is to preserve and provide access topermanent records.Q2: Looking forward, the authors concluded that, there is going to be agreat need for collaboration between both internal and externalstakeholders to develop governance policies and strategies to govern andcontrol information assets over long periods of time, among other requirements.For this to be achievable, the chapter has identified one most important consideration that must be met.What is that consideration?Identify, and provide a brief narrative to support your answer.
Chapter 16 Microsoft’s SharePoint server product dramatically alteredthe content and records management (RM) markets.Crocker (2015), editedby Smallwood research indicated that previous to SharePoint solutionswere somewhat cumbersome, managed large quantities of documents, andrequired extensive implementation efforts for each businessapplications.Given all its stated capabilities, SharePoint may be usedeffectively to help business organizations to govern their information. However, in order to achieve those benefits, the implementingorganizations must take a structured approach to the deployment of itsSharePoint environment. Q1: Our case study authors have indicated that, for SharePointdeployments, “an ounce of prevention truly is worth a pound of cure.” Why is that?From our chapter reading, identify and briefly state whythe authors were inclined to believe so?
