WebDav is suppose to control version tracking, so there is an idea.
You may want to check nara.gov, the National archives and www.arma.org to see what they suggest to do with electronic documents.
james
On Nov 16, 2004, at 6:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A client asked me this question, and I'm wondering if anyone has run into this. �They are in the Patents Department, and can be called upon in court to "prove" that their people invented something, etc. �In the "olden days", there were notebooks. Actual books with dated bound pages that their people wrote in, and they were accepted as evidence.
But now alot of the people are creating Word documents or Excel spreadsheets with notes of their "inventions." �The Patents people are concerned that these aren't good enough for legal defense. �I showed them how the File, Properties showed the date created and the date modified but they aren't happy with that because an innocent change could change the date modified and there's no record of the original document. �Also there is an "author" indication on one of the tabs, but we have yet to figure out where to set the author. �Every document on every workstation has the name of the company.
Anyone ever dealt with this? �Feel free to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] off the list.
Karen
