Digital Government

NARA wants you to 'like' the Constitution

The National Archives and Records Administration has started a Facebook fan page for the U.S. Constitution.

Modernization

New-look Federal Register online debuts

The government today released a new online prototype for its daily diary of agency and news that's designed to be more usable, understandable and accessible.

Modernization

Electronic Records Archives needs more oversight, auditors say

The Government Accountability Office says NARA needs to take steps to ensure completion of its Electronic Records Archives system by 2012.

Modernization

NARA seeks feedback on declassification priorities

The National Archives and Records Administration is using a blog and public meeting to collect feedback on a draft plan for its new National Declassification Center.

Digital Government

NARA's chief information officer to retire

As CIO, Martha Morphy oversees deployment of the initial parts of NARA's $550 million Electronic Records Archives system. Her retirement is effective July 2.

Modernization

6 degrees: Explore your Civil War roots with NARA

The National Archives and Records Administration uses interactive technologies to help people explore the Civil War.

Digital Government

Many agencies earn failing grade for e-recordkeeping

Seventy-nine percent of more than 200 departments, agencies, and sub-agencies that responded to a recent survey from the National Archives and Records Administration were found to have a high or moderate risk of improperly destroying records.

Digital Government

Another high-level administration officials takes to the blog

National archivist David Ferriero gets credit for starting his own blog, but he ought to loosen up a little, writes blogger Brian Robinson.

Modernization

House passes e-records management bill

House lawmakers recently passed a bill that would amend laws that cover federal and presidential recordkeeping to ensure preservation of electronic messages that are records.

Modernization

Federal 100: Robert Chadduck

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Modernization

NARA clarifies recordkeeping for the cloud

The National Archives and Records Administration wants agency officials to understand how cloud computing affects recordkeeping.

Modernization

Preservation Road: Visual and audio records say more than text ever could

NARA works to ensure that future generations can continue to learn from the past, and that increasingly requires the agency to digitize audiovisual records.

Modernization

FOIA dispute mediator opens doors

The new Office of Government Information Services is exploring how information technology could help it mediate disputes over Freedom of Information Act requests.

Modernization

Ferriero takes on NARA's culture, modernization challenges

David Ferriero, the new U.S. archivist, will be under pressure to improve access to government information and security at the National Archives and Records Administration. A Q&A with staff writer Ben Bain.

Digital Government

New classification system to tackle challenges of electronic information

President Barack Obama has called for research in technologies and standardized electronic protocols as part of an overhaul of the government's classification system.

Cybersecurity

NARA weighs standardizing access rules for foreign vendors seeking secret data

A NARA office wants to establish a standardized process through which some highly sensitive data could be released under special agreement to foreign-owned or controlled contractors.

Modernization

NARA admits violating internal policy on personal info

NARA's policy required it to destroy hard drives, but in some cases agency personnel returned them to vendors instead, official says.

Digital Government

Online collection helps people remember, research Holocaust

Hundreds of thousands of Holocaust-related records are now searchable online through a National Archives and Records Administration project.

Modernization

Monumental task

The second half of the National Archives and Records Administration's name suggests an even bigger challenge than keeping aging official parchments from rotting away into oblivion.

Cybersecurity

NARA digs out of digital avalanche

The National Archives is under mounting pressure to help the federal government manage its rapidly growing store of electronic records.