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
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.
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