Metadata in old film rolls from Japan – a personal story

Metadata is often thought of as either describing objects (e.g., paper or digital records, library books, physical assets, etc), or forming part of a digital object (e.g., system generated metadata or in the case of most digital photographs, EXIF metadata). Before the arrival of computer-based databases (and even after), many companies embedded codes in their …

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Tips to reduce complexity when implementing SharePoint

Over a period of almost 10 years of providing support for SharePoint (2010, 2013, Online), one of my key learnings has been to avoid complexity in its implementation. The more complicated the implementation is, the harder it will be to support, fix and maintain. This post contains several tips for implementing SharePoint to minimise complexity …

In place vs in place management of records in Microsoft 365

The ability to manage records 'in place' in SharePoint has existed since around 2013. But this is not the same thing as leaving records where they were created or captured and managing them there - 'in place'. This post explains the difference between the two 'in place' options. In brief: The Microsoft 'in place' model …

Metadata persistence when records are moved in SharePoint

SharePoint Online document libraries include the option to move content to a different location. But what happens to the metadata when this content is moved? This post explains what happens to the metadata when different types of content stored in a SharePoint Online document library is moved (not copied) using the 'Move to' option to …