Big Ideas: How to turn a tin can into a TARDIS

Starting with a tin can and a tried and tested supermarket
analogy Mark Merifield covers some basic principles of
information management and explores the value that's held in
metadata. Building on ideas being worked on by government's
Metadata and Vocabularies Working Group he examines how, with
some simple controls and standards, that metadata could go on to
open up our understanding, use and re-use of government's
information across time and (cyber)space, solving digital
transfer and opening up new ways to access our records along the
way.


A specialist in the management of digital information, Mark
worked with the team that developed the understanding and
application of the principles of Digital Continuity. He has been
particularly focused on making sure the future can become the
past.