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Advanced Initiatives and Strategies in Records and Information Management, Forum conducted in partnership with the Digital Government Institute (DGI) at the Ronald Reagan Building, March 4, 2010 - Announcement

Electronic Records Assessments and Appraisal Methodologies, John Charles Krysa & Linda A. Bigsby, FBI
Intelligent Categorization: Air Force Information Asset Management, Michael Corrigan & Tim Sprehe
Practical Benefits from Information and Records Management Standards, Betsy Fanning, AIIM

Increasing Effectiveness Through External Federal Resources, Forum conducted at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), November 4, 2009 - Agenda

David Weinberger, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Overview & Data Services, Frederick Roach, Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR)
GPO's Electronic Services, Janice Sterling & Kimberly Ross, Government Printing Office (GPO)
National Digital Information Infrastructure, Bill LeFurgy, Library of Congress (LOC)

Reaching Increased Effectiveness through Multi-Disciplinary Partnership: An Exploration of Common Interest/Benefit within Your Agency, Forum conducted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), June 23, 2009 - Agenda, Speaker Bios & Attendance List

Managing Data and Information as National Assets, Suzanne Acar, co-chair, CIOC Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS)
Integrated Enterprise-wide Risk Management: Protecting Critical Information Assets and Records, Ron Ross, NIST
RIM in the Age of E-Discovery, Christina Ayiotis, CSC

Managing Information Assets and Automating Content Classification: The Crux of the Matter, Forum conducted at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), January 14, 2009

US Air Force Information and Services Strategy, Mike Corrigan
eMail and Records Management with IBM Classification Module, Jon Dellaria

Our Public Record: Next Generations, Forum conducted at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), September 24, 2008 - Agenda

Fall Forum at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), October 25, 2007 - Agenda with Links to Presentations

Records Management Performance Metrics: Good Practices and Tools, Forum at FOSE, March 20, 2007 -- Announcement | Call for Participation (CFP) | Agenda | Presentations | Evaluation Form | Highest Rated Presentations | Audience Comments

Records of Life Events in Citizen Centered Government, FIRM Presentation at FOSE,
March 7, 2006

FIRM Fall Forum, Federal Metadata Summit, November 2, 2005, at the Department of Homeland Security

Trusted Digital Repositories, Babak Hamidzadeh
Getting from Theory to Practice: A Metadata Model for GPO's Digital Future, George Barnum
The Future of Metadata, Denise Bedford
FEA Data Reference Model, Version 2.0, Michael Daconta
Metadata for the Integration of EDMS and ERMS, Patricia Franks
Role of Metadata: Enhancing Federal Information Connections, Elizabeth Fugitt
Metadata and Web Content Management, Sam Gallagher

FIRM Summer Forum, August 9, 2005: Overview of the OMB directed Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) standards, across the Federal Government

Federal Enterprise Architecture
FEA Data Reference Model's Support to Records Management
Recommendations on Categorization by the ICGI Workgroup

FIRM Slide Presentation at RACO 2005, John Paul Deley, May 12, 2005

Functionality Required in an Electronic Recordkeeping System: Specification discussed by FIRM at RACO 2005

Voices from the Desert: The Sedona Principles, the Courts, and Legal Issues Affecting Federal Agency Electronic Records Management, December 7, 2004, FIRM Forum

The Role of Electronic Records Management in Implementing eGovernment: Electronic Records and the Federal Enterprise Architecture, Dr. Michael J. Kurtz, FIRM Spring Forum, April 15, 2004