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Owen Ambur 

Silver Spring, MD & Hilton Head Island, SC
 
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  • More XML Stuff
    • Some Wild & Crazy Thoughts on Potential Applications of XML, June 12, 2001
    • XML in a Citizen-Centered e-Government: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too, article in GSA newsletter on XML Applications in Government, January 2002
      (Local Copy, November 9, 2001)
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  • Some Meetings of Interest to Me (outdated)  See also http://xml.gov/index.asp#new

  • Information and Records Management Law & Policy Links of Interest to Me

  • eGov, eRecords & XML ... in Order to Create a More Perfect Union. Presentation, eReg COP, November 18, 2002 (Local Copy)

  • Comments on OMB's Information Quality Guidelines, August 7, 2001 (Local Copy)


  • eGov, eRecords & XML.  Presentation, FIRM Forum, June 6, 2001 (Long Version)
     
  • It's the Record, Stupid!  Presentation at Secure E-Business Executive Summit, May 7, 2001
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  • Et Tu, Uncle Sammie? The Challenge of Records Management in the Lewinsky Age.  Presentations before Gaithersburg and Northern Virginia Chapters of ARMA.  October 12 and Ides of March 2000
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  • Reconsidering the Higher-Order Legitimacy of French and Raven's Bases of Social Power in the Information Age. July 15, 2000
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  • Comments on Section 508 (Accessibility) Regulations, May 15, 2000
     
  • Virtual Communities: Cyber Spaces for the Social Graces. May 11, 2000, presentation.
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  • Taking a FIRM Stand: E-Records and the President's E-Gov/E-Society Directives. February 2, 2000. Expanded Version of Article for the E-Gov Journal on behalf of the FIRM Council
     
  • For the Record, Metrics Matter ... But Does Uncle Sam Care About Quality Management? November 11, 1999

    • ISO 9000 - Quality Management Systems, Paraphrased from Total Improvement Management, by H. James Harrington, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995
    • ISO 15489 - Records Management
       
  • Standards of Interest to the Federal Information and Records Managers (FIRM) Council
     
  • When Push Comes to Shove: The Potential to Protect Personal Privacy and Preferences Via P3P, Digital Personas, and X.500.  May 2, 1999
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  • Web Records.  Logical and Statutory Requirements:  Proposed Strategy & Objectives for the Ad Hoc Workgroup on Web Records.  Department of the Interior.  April 14, 1999.  (Slide Show)
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A light bulb in the socket is worth two in the pocket.
~Bill Wolf (1950-2001)

Party ~ A meeting for which no records are kept. (See also: "tacit knowledge")
E-mail ~ A stage of immaturity through which we must pass. (See also: "chaos")
Company (Firm) ~ A group of people subscribing to the same data elements for mutual monetary gain.
Association ~ A group of people subscribing to the same data elements for mutual mental gain.
Complaint ~ An expression of a problem that is insufficient to effect action.
IT Architecture ~ An abstraction sufficient to enable inaction.
Revolution ~ Evolution on Internet time.

Don't panic too soon!
~Jim King (1950-????)

Old (off-line) Stuff

  • Functional, Technical, and Resource Requirements for the Servicewide Document Management System: Findings of the Requirements Analysis Team, Together with Recommendations and Alternatives.  Team Leader and Author.  Division of Information Resources Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  August 3, 1995
  • Congressional Handbook, 102nd & 103rd Congress, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1991 and 1993
     
  • ISDN: All the World Is a LAN.  Montgomery County College.  December 12, 1989
     
  • Targeting Farm Aid Toward Efficiency.  Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy.  Vol. 3, No. 2. Summer 1988. pp. 41 - 48
     
  • Selling Out the Family Farm: A Classic Case of Good Intentions Gone Awry.  Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States.  November 24, 1986.  S.Prt. 99-208
     
  • A Systems Approach to a More Efficient Mail Flow in a Congressional Office.  The Catholic University of America. December 1976
     
  • Happiness Is... The Catholic University of America. October 1976
     
  • Man as a Limited Capacity Information Processor: Implications for Classroom Learning and Limited Capacity Teachers and School Psychologists.  The Catholic University of America. Fall 1975
     
  • School Psychology, Two Personified Models.  The Catholic University of America. Fall 1975
  • Congruity -- Fact, Artifact, or Oversimplification: Toward an Empirical Science of Attitude

Professional Affiliations

  • American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) - Former Member