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Recent Publications
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Commentary on Fugitive Documents," Government
Information Quarterly, Spring 2006.
"NARA Profile Reflects Bad Focus," Federal Computer Week, February 27, 2006. NARA's records management profile for the FEA focuses on risk management, ignores uses of records in business processes.
"A Puzzling Executive Order," Federal Computer Week, January 23, 2006. The Bush administration, which makes it harder for the public to get government information, publishes an Executive Order on freedom of information.
"Wishing NARA Well," Federal Computer Week, September 26, 2005. NARA awards contract for Electronic Records Archives, but will it succeed?
"FBI Gets It Right," Federal Computer Week, June 27, 2005. The FBI's Electronic Recordkeeping Certification program is an excellent idea that deserves widespread repetition in other agencies.
"Lifting the Burden," with Charles R. McClure, Information Management Journal, July/August, 2005.
"Promises Not Yet Fulfilled," Federal Computer Week, June 6, 2005. Clinger-Cohen has been a major step forward in government management but much remains to be done.
"Desktop Records Management in a Network Environment," Charles R. McClure and J. Timothy Sprehe, presentation at Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting, Coalition for Networked Information, April 4, 2005, Washington, DC.
"The Positive Benefits of ERM in the Context of ECM," Government Information Quarterly, forthcoming, 2005.
"OMB's Policy Needs Help," Federal Computer Week, February 21, 2005. The pablum of OMB's Web policy was yesterday's news several years ago.
"A Framework for EDMS/ERMS Integration," Information Management Journal, Vol. 38, No. 6, November/December 2004, pp. 54-62.
"Finding a Balance,"Federal Computer Week, October 18, 2004, Is productivity a casualty of federal building security practices?
"An Off-Track Report," Federal Computer Week, August 30, 2004. The Electronic Records Policy Working Group's draft report is muddled and flawed. AIIM International, July 4, 2004.
AIIM Technical Report TR48: Framework for Integration of Electronic Document Management Systems and Electronic Records Management Systems, presentation at "Managing Electronic Records 2004," Chicago, May 25, 2004.
"Pop-Up Policies," Federal Computer Week, June 28, 2004. Using desktop pop-ups for email records management is a mistake. Minimize end-user involvement in electronic records management.
"Politicizing the Archives," Federal Computer Week, April 26, 2004. Has President Bush made the National Archives a political football?
"The e-GPO," Federal Computer Week, March 22, 2004. It is an interesting concept -- a government printing agency where documents are never printed.
Two presentations: Electronic Records Management and the Federal ERM Market and Electronic Records Management and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, at FileNet Corporation's Insight 2004 Conference, January 26-28, 2004, Palm Springs, CA.
"Storing E-Stuff," Federal Computer Week, January 12, 2004, The National Archives' Electronic Records Archives program is critically important not only for the longevity of federal e-records but for the long-term persistence of all forms of digital information. "Homeless E-Records," Federal Computer Week, November 10, 2003. Federal records, "born electronic," live in information technology systems but none of the IT systems are designed to treat them as records. TESTIMONY by J. Timothy Sprehe on the subject of Electronic Records Management before the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census, U.S. House of Representatives, July 8, 2003
"Practice Makes Perfect," Federal Computer Week, September 2, 2003. The National Archives should practice what it preaches in electronic records management. "Reflections on E-Government," presentation given to 2003 CENDI Annual Planning Conference on scientific and technical information, Potomac, MD, September 4, 2003.
"Transitioning to Electronic Records Management," presentation given to Department of Homeland Security Records Management Conference, Savannah, GA, August 13, 2003
"Integrating Electronic Records Management in the Enterprise Information Technology Environment," with Lauren Fernandez, Information Management Journal, July/August 2003. "Building Maturity in Enterprise Records Management," presentation at Hummingbird Summit 2003, February 25, 2003, Orlando, FL Printing Detente, Federal Computer Week, July 14, 2003. OMB and GPO negotiate a good agreement over federal printing. Vital Backup, Federal Computer Week, June 9, 2003. Protect the information first, stupid, not the systems. "Transitioning to Organization-wide Physical and Electronic Records Management," presentation to RACO 2003, May 13, 2003, Washington, DC. PowerPoint slides available upon request from jtsprehe@jtsprehe.com. Who Manages Contractors? Federal Computer Week, March 31, 2003. The push on outsourcing may amount to giving away the store and letting contractors run the government.
The Meaning of Record, Federal Computer Week, February 10, 2003. IT managers and records managers must learn to speak each others' language.
The Battle of the Printer, Federal Computer Week, November 18, 2002. The Bush administration and Congress spar over the Government Printing Office.
NARA Reforms Welcomed, Federal Computer Week, October 7, 2002. NARA issues a proposal for reforming federal records management. Facing the Facts, Facing the Facts, Facing the Facts, , Federal Computer Week, August 26, 2002. The administration's policy on access to government information is two-faced. Enterprise Records Management: Strategies and Solutions, A White Paper prepared for Hummingbird Ltd., September 2002. Data Quality Politics, Federal Computer Week, July 29, 2002. Data quality guidelines now binding agencies are a double-edged sword.
"Principal Challenges Facing Electronic Records Management in Federal Agencies Today," with Giovanna Patterson, Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2002.
"The Role of Situational Factors in Managing U.S. Federal Recordkeeping," with Charles R. McClure and Phillip Zellner, Government Information Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2002.
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