Iron Mountain and Microsoft?

Every so often I check out Microsoft's Records Management Team Blog and this week they posted a notice on their collaboration with Iron Mountain. I'm really interested in trying out their new release in my own work environment and seeing how it could help with basic RM tasks. This new feature is great for those who have records stored at IM. After seeing their posts from the ARMA Conference, I've moved this activity up a few notches in my priority for creative (a.k.a. low budget or doable to the lone RM-er) RM ideas to check out.

Back on assignment

After some encouragement from eb, I'm posting again. This can serve as my journal through a year+ electronic records fellowship that I just started. My goal is to develop a recordkeeping framework for social scientists conducting data-intensive research.

One of my current questions is that of research data. In the records retention schedule at my institution, grant funded research data has a life of 5 years. But what does that have to say about the long-term value of this stuff? Is this just an excuse to not have to take it in (it can be quite voluminous)?

More to come soon...