PRONI/RMS Ireland conference - The Tools, The Trade
The Tools, the Trade was a Records Management conference held in conjunction with the Records Management Society Ireland on 11 March 2010 at the Island Valley Conference Centre in Lisburn. In total 162 delegates attended, representing public bodies from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Conference Programme
Strand 1: Technologies and Industry Tools
Keynote Address, Alan Shipman, Group 5 Training Ltd - Legal Admissibility of Electronic Records (63KB)

Richard Jeffrey Cook, In-Form Consult Ltd - Sharepoint, Strengths & Weaknesses (236KB)

William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition - The Thing About Digital Preservation (2.3MB)

Iain Fleming, PRONI - PRONI and All things digital (1.1MB)

Strand 2: Applying the Craft
Susan Healy, The National Archives - Applying the FOI records management code (318KB)

Sarah O’Cathain, Information Commissioner’s Office - FOI: 5 years on and what the future holds (71KB)

Colm Murphy, The Sunday Times - The Impact of FOI on the media/public on both sides of the Border, five and 12 years on (58KB)

Dorothy Quinn, RMS Ireland - Meeting the storage needs of the future (1.1KB)

Lawrence Stanford, PRONI – PRONI at Titanic Quarter, The Next Chapter (1.2MB)

Strand 3: Managing Records: Back to Basics
Edith Pringault-Adam, RMS Conference Director and Information and Records Manager, Aberdeenshire Council - How to make Yourself Heard: Getting Records Management on the agenda of Senior Managers
Graham Jackson, PRONI - Information Audits, Disposal scheduling, life span of records (45KB)

Martin Bradley, Archives Consulting Services Ltd - Taking Rocket Science out of Records Management: how and why you should be able to DIY (63KB)

Denise Nixon, DHSSPS - An update on the Health Service Good Management Good Records (129KB)

Brendan Murphy, Health Service Executive, Ireland - Developing a Records Management Strategy for the Health Service (236KB)


