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DISA selects e-records file management standard

DISA has selected software that uses an Internet open standard for document and file management that supports e-records

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A crisis for Web preservation

Fugitive documents published on the Web are not being preserved

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Making technology work for record management

Tech execs and records managements need to understand each other, analysts say.

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Putting records to work

FBI creates a records management organization that helps agents fight crime

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Four universities to test preservation handling

Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Old Dominion will be partners in a test of procedures for handling large digital collections slated for preservation.

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Equitrac boosts control of paper mountain

Equitrac Office 3.0 gives IT administrators control document distribution and costs

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Seattle digitizes crime records

ABM America is providing four products to form an integrated system for the Seattle police department.

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GPO hunts fugitives

The Government Printing Office will send out a Web bot to find so-called fugitive documents.

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Defense, VA lack common data exchange

The two agencies remain far apart when it comes to sharing digital medical records, GAO says.

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Records group readies report

The Electronic Records Policy Working Group also plans to create tools to help agencies.

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Digitizing groovy records

Library of Congress officials hope particle physics equipment can map those old turntable and phonograph recordings.

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Librarian protects digital artifacts

Preserving the Information Age for the future

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Sprehe: Politicizing the Archives

Has President Bush made NARA a political football?

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Contracts planned for ERA design

Federal officials expect to award two contracts by early fall for the design phase of the Electronic Records Archives.

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NASA to merge media archives

Space officials want proposals for a NASA archiving system that would create a one-stop multimedia source for the public.

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Records overseers push for architecture spot

Federal information and records managers want to have their say in federal enterprise architecture.

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Agencies to organize digital records

By 2007, the National Archives and Records Administration anticipates having an operational archive for digital materials.

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Archive-friendly PDF in the works

Slimmed-down PDF could become a standard

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NARA seeks comments on rule changes

The National Archives and Records Administration says that current regulations don't account for the role of IT staffers in managing electronic records.

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Archivists praise PDF/A

Federal records managers show interest in a modified version of the popular PDF format.