At the end of this course, the participants should be able to:

• Adapt to ongoing technological developments in electronic archiving and cloud storage
• Understand the concepts and terminology of EDRMS in organizations
•  Highlight the similarities and differences in the interrelationships between data, documents, records and content.
• Know the importance of ECM and knowledge management and storage in a coherent framework
• Provide general frameworks for the development of feasibility studies in digital projects for documents, records and digital content management systems (EDRMS) in organizations
• Provide detailed frameworks for the preparation of work manuals, policies and procedures for documents and methods of preservation and retrieval.
• Take advantage of the cloud storage features of documents

Best practices for indexing and archiving

• The importance of archiving and digital indexing technology
• Determining the requirements and rules of archiving and modern indexing technology
• Identify key processes for digital operations and electronic archiving
• Best practices, concepts and standard tools for digital operations and electronic archiving
• Archiving applications and indexing technology in organizations
• How document and records management can be implemented across the organization
• Best practices and applications, Prepare document and records management plans.
• Identify cloud service providers, and choose the right one

Digital Systems Best Practices

• Definition of digitizing
• Digitization methods
• Reasons for the trend towards digital systems
• Requirements for the transition to digital systems
• Steps (stages) of transformation towards digital systems
• Electronic Document Archiving

Storage and digital preservation

• The importance of storage and digital preservation
• Digital preservation methods
• Digital Storage and Preservation Policy

Organizing electronic documents

• Electronic Document Indexing
• Classification of electronic documents
• Indexing of electronic documents
• Electronic Document Retrieval
• Electronic Document Management Systems
• Electronic document management systems
• How to deal with electronically signed documents so that they do not lose their legislative validity

Modern technologies and the application of international standards in archival techniques

• The importance of document software and its applications in the archive
• Practical applications of preservation and maintenance methods for archival assets
• Applications of modern technologies in cataloging manuscripts

Problems of archive management in the electronic age and information systems security

• Archive management in the electronic age
• Protect and secure documents stored in storage containers within the electronic archive
• Use the available software to transform paper documents to an electronic image that cannot be changed.

Cloud services and electronic archiving

• Modern technologies and the concept of cloud storage and cloud computing
• Benefits of Cloud Storage
• Cloud computing, and its characteristics
• Cloud Computing Challenges
• Materials that can be stored in the cloud
• Cloud service providers