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Re: [teknoids] Document management beyond the clinic?

Michael,

It was a great conference! At Emory Law, we just use Novell and Windows file-sharing for file services. A couple of alternatives that keep coming up are Alfresco[1] and SharePoint[2]. A proposal is moving through governance to provide full-disk encryption for
university-owned notebooks.

Best,

Ben

[1] http://www.alfresco.com/ . Some of the founders were with Documentum. It’s a really interesting java-based product. The document repository can look like an SMB share, but it also has metadata, workflow, etc. built-in.
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ . If you go down the SharePoint route, I highly recommend the Sharepoint book by Jeff Webb entitled “Essential SharePoint” (O’Reilly 2005).

On 6/25/08 12:04 AM, "Sparks, Michael" <Michael.Sparks@law.lsu.edu> wrote:

Teknoids one and all,

Fresh back from a great CALI conference, I've been asked to find out what
other law schools do for document management and security generally and for
the administration, not especially what is done for the clinical programs.

The case management software session headed up by Andy Adkins was very
informative and I expect to be in that market very soon here, but the
discussion did not go beyond application to clinics (and I didn't yet know I
should be asking). So, what are folks doing for your schools'
administrations? Formal document/case management systems? Traditional file
shares with NTFS permissions? Simple web/SFTP/FTPS access? Any special
security measures beyond laptop file encryption, like automated/mandatory
file encryption/ACL's or other measures to make sure documents do move
beyond defined boundaries?

Any and all responses appreciated!

Michael
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