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The case for access

The Judicial Conference of the United States spells out alternatives for regulating access to legal records, both at court-houses and online. For example, the alternatives for civil case files

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Electronic records fight resumes

Public Citizen claims that agencies are failing to live up to promises they made to the U.S. Court of Appeals about electronic records

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Veto shelves Archives' IT budget

NARA's modest request for information technology projects sailed through Congress, but it has been shelved temporarily by the president

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Agency scaling back mountain of paper

After a year of testing, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will accept electronic documents as substitutes for paper in some cases

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BLM puts database online

The new Web site gives the public access to land and minerals records that previously required an inperson visit to a BLM access center

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Election season heats up e-mail debates

If the flap about missing White House e-mail messages was ever about technology, that's no longer the case.

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'Anytime, any place' archivist

When he was nominated to be archivist of the United States in 1995, John Carlin was not a popular choice.

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The ultimate archives

The National Archives may have found a way to make erecords available for generations to come

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Archives clarifies its e-recordkeeping plan

To update its operating regulations for the Digital Age, the National Archives and Records Administration has proposed new rules that would permit document requests via e-mail and allow the agency to respond with electronic documents as well as paper photocopies.

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Firm sorts, shares files via Web

A young Internet company hopes its Webbased services enable government workers in scattered locations to collaborate on projects

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Recordkeeper in chief staying put

John Carlin wants to oversee the completion of an electronic archive that would make government records available online 'anytime, any place'

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OCR gets paper into the digital workflow

ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge Pro 9.0 Business Edition provides fast document conversion and output to Web formats

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Archives predicts deluge

Preserving electronic records and providing electronic access to them is the National Archives and Records Administration's biggest challenge

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Going Electronic

Some of NARA's longrange goals

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GAO: Closing NTIS not easy

A year ago, its own parent agency said the National Technical Information Service has been made obsolete by the Internet and should be abolished

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Archives tests e-records

The National Archives and Records Administration is preparing to test the intelligence of an electronic records management system. It hopes the system will be smart enough to read documents as they are created and decide which are important enough to be kept as official records and where and for how long they should be stored.

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Intelink managers explore data center

Administrators of a classified Internet are promoting the creation of a data center that will better coordinate information sharing and production

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Y2K hindered White House e-mail fix

Reconstruction of a system that will be used to recover lost White House email was put on hold last year to deal with Year 2000 compliance

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HUD setting up data warehouse

To better manage lowincome housing nationwide, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has hired MicroStrategy Inc. to develop a data warehouse

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DOT contract pushes paperless

The Transportation Department is taking another step toward a paperless working environment with the planned award of two contracts for document imaging systems by the Federal Aviation Administration