RMCR Imaging Lab Goals

·        Digital imaging and micrographics

·        Consulting on technology  and regulatory issues for records retrieval and preservation

·        Media conversion services (microfilm to digital, paper to digital and microfilm, digital to paper or alternative digital media)

·        Coordinating, managing and quality checking the outsourcing of imaging services for County departments

Click here to see the Lab in action.

September 2013

For the last three years, updates to the Imaging Lab Work Plan have been posted on this blog.  Reports to management have summarized developments on videos like this one:

Performance measures tracked for budgeting and planning are detailed by image type and by department at this link.

The graph below shows how the number of boxes of records imported into the NetDMS system have fluctuated over the past year.

August

Every month, Imaging Lab production management highlights are reported on video.  These video updates are posted two or three weeks after the end of each month.  In August, fewer boxes of District Attorney and County Attorney paper files were delivered to the Imaging Lab for conversion to digital. To maintain scanning volume, the Lab turned to boxes of Medical Examiner papers that will be imported into a new DMS during FY 2014. Details are in this month's video ...

To see the detailed performance inputs that make up the summary information described in this month's video, click on this POLARIS link.  A table will open that shows for each task in each job by each technician how long each element took and how accurate each stage of QC was.

You can scroll down in this blog and compare month-to-month statistics going back three years.

July

Two or three weeks after the end of each month, production reports are posted.  Management highlights are reported on videos like this one ...

To drill down into the detailed performance indicators that are summarized in the video, click on this POLARIS link.

June 2013

Every month, Imaging Lab production management highlights are reported on video. This month's update notes slack time for the Archive Writer, the machine that turns digital images into microfilm. It was used less than usual because there was a sharp drop in the number of digital images delivered to the Lab for conversion to microfilm. Paper scanning, on the other hand, increased since May.
Click on this link for the June summary report to management (video).

Click on this POLARIS link to review in detail each performance indicator tracked every month.

County Attorney project progress note

As of today, RMCR Imaging has imported 65,326 County Attorney files into NetDMS; that's 2,686,893 images for an average of 41.3 images per file. These imports began in June of 2011 when NetDMS went live. 

May 2013

During May, there were 364 records expunged from District Clerk microfilm and four electronic records expunged from Sheriff's Office data.

Other management highlights are described in this month's video ...

To drill down into production details, click on this POLARIS link.