MER 2010: Sessions Details

Stroll around any good, comprehensive art museum and you will see the evolving ways human have recorded and portrayed their life, their thoughts, and their surroundings, from the simple but elegant petro glyphs of Native Americans, to the two-dimensional representational art of the ancient near east, to the breakthroughs in perspective and proportionality of the Renaissance masters, to the invention of photography and motion pictures, to today’s real-time conceptual art.

Each stage in the evolution of art is the product of the interplay of social, technological, and environmental developments. Each stage in the evolution of records management is the product of a similar multi-faceted dialectic. To understand how we got to where we are and where we are going, we need to break the linear, two-dimensional mold and – like the Renaissance masters – adopt perspective and proportion.

In this final session of MER 2010, we’ll look ahead at the future of ERM, particularly as we address legal and regulatory challenges, and explore such issues as:

• The evolving ERM landscape
• The evolving legal and regulatory landscape
• The internationalization of ERM
• Evolving technological concepts in ERM
• The challenges of long-term preservation and access
• Achieving perspective and proportion in ERM planning, execution, and response