Essay On Digital Record

ISSUES IN DIGITAL MANAGEMENT OF RECORDS

Around the world, individuals, organisations, governments – all have embraced information technologies. Nearly every person has internet access. Every individual is known to the technical advances we have and ever increasing spread of cell phones are effectively extending the range of internet covering areas.

We are living in a digital world- The living world where it has been estimated that approximately 93% of new data is born digitally. Digital materials are created on daily basis whether it is emails, voicemails, digital music files, document files, videos etc. The amount of digital data has been in increment ever since; which is causing the difficulty of managing such a big amount of data.

MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL RECORDS OF THE PEOPLE:

Digital records have been created and required to be maintained for a long period. The records have varieties of purpose such as social, personal, governmental, organizational, institutional, corporation and other accountabilities etc. Though what needs our major attention is towards maintaining the people digital records.

The most common issues known are listed below:

• Inadequate storage space;

• Unenhanced technical standards;

• Outdated equipments and applications;

• Low speed local networks;

• Slow internet workings;

• Less variety of servers;

• Removal of digital records;

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Due to continuous increase in the electronic data along with less up-to-date systems cause our data to crash. Lower networks and servers block updating and managing tasks of such data. Having limited storage space causes overloading of data and threatens its preservation. Uncertain and unwanted loss of relevant data needs our data to be sorted, so that ingestion of material data wouldn’t cause