Memory as Records Management System

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Memory as Records Management System

• memory is . . . the most common information
  retrieval software known to man sic-Jim
  Connelly, CRM
• Sandra Dunkin Cheri Rauser

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The Brain vs Technology

• The best computers can store one billion bits of
  information.
• 1,000,000,000
• According to neurobiologists the human memory can
  store one hundred trillion bits of information.
• 100,000,000,000,000
• Thats 100,000 times the capacity of modern
  technology!!!

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Retrieval Systems

• Human memory can incorporate a variety of search
  fields to retrieve information
• The majority of these are known as mnemonic
  devices

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Forms of Memory

• Images
• Sounds
• Smells
• Emotions
• Colours
• Sensations

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Sensation Information Metadata

• The context and the content are of equal
  importance in the creation of a memory record
• The medium is the message
• Oral memory is comprehensive and participative

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Mnemonics

• System of aides memoires or memoria technica
• Generalized codes to improve all-around capacity
  to remember
• Ease the retrieval of categories of information
  from human memory

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The written record is a subjective snapshot
caught in time

• The written record is static
• Oral record is a living entity
• Written records are most often the
  interpretations of one individual

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Plato believed that writing, far from assisting
memory, implanted forgetfulness into our souls
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Cultural History Corporate memorySome
Ancient Oral Records Managers

• Greek - ?????? Anglo-Saxon - Scop Irish -
  Poet-Ollam Italian - Cantastorie French -
  Jongleur English - Singer of Tales

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• The first stories told of our place in society
  and culture through such devices as elaborate
  genealogical inventories and epic
  histories
• http//cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/
  folder6/ng61.htm

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The Last Slide

• The human memory is enduring, Technology is
  ephemeral

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A Buddhist Prayer for Lost Information

• http//www.thezen.or.jp/jomoh/kuyo.html