2020 was a year like no other – a year of massive change forced upon as we collectively reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Much has been written about the way in which we adapted to our changing circumstances, in particular, the need to pivot our business models to...
Intelligent automation of recordkeeping – an approach that really works
Over the past few months a remarkable collaboration has taken place between three parties: Pingar NZ, Synercon Australia and our client Auckland Transport. We each brought existing knowledge and toolsets, which we combined to build an Intelligent Automation platform...
Barriers to autoclassification for information governance and how to overcome them
After my last post on classification, I got into conversations with colleagues about why we haven’t been able to leverage autoclassification more for information governance (IG). Given that its no longer possible for us humans to process the vast quantities of...
Why you need ontologies to automate records appraisal and classification
Even information professionals need a helping hand to appraise and classify the growing document stockpile. Not surprising then that most organisations we work with have reached the same point where autoclassification is the only viable solution to appraise, capture...
Eating our own (auto-classification) dogfood and loving it
It's always been my contention that we folk in information management should use our own products. So that we can experience the same pain as our users are feeling. So here at Synercon we use our own a.k.a.® software to build metadata and classification schemes which...
Automating recordkeeping (Conni Christensen, Image and Data Manager)
So much to consider regarding automation of recordkeeping practices. It's a subject I've been mulling over for a while now given that the focus of my research is classification and metadata. You can read more about our research with metadata and data models to enable...
Automating recordkeeping – what’s holding us back?
February, 2014. Conni's paper has been selected for the IRMS Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom, May 18-20 2104. Here is the precis: We live in a world of technology where process automation is the norm. So why, in 2014,...