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NARA guidance under scrutiny
Guidance that the National Archives gave the White House on preserving presidential records is the latest item under scrutiny in the investigation of the White House email system
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Rethinking IT
In addition to addressing access to information, OMB's proposed revisions to Circular A-130 attempt to force agencies to exercise better oversight of their information technology investments.
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Making documents smarter
Does making government more accessible need to be so difficult? In the Information Age, shouldn't there be an easier way to locate documents and to predesignate what is public and what is not?
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Fed records for dummies
With a federal court ruling pending, the Office of Management and Budget has written new rules telling federal agencies to do a better job of making agency information including electronic documents available to the public.
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CIA tackles records nightmare
The CIA has embarked upon an agencywide data standardization and systems integration effort after a report by the National Archives and Records Administration found severe weaknesses in the agency's program for preserving key government records.
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Ignore e-records at own risk
The rule of thumb in official Washington is never say or do anything you would not want to have show up in The Washington Post. Add to that: Never don't do something that will land you in The Washington Post.
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BLM opts for cost-free digitization
The Bureau of Land Management may have found a means to convert its library of microfilm land records onto disk at no cost. Actually, the means may have found the bureau.
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Report criticizes CIA recordkeeping
A NARA report says flawed recordkeeping practices at the CIA increase the risk that critical data may not be preserved
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Archivist puts price on e-records
It will cost about $130 million and take about five years to build, but a national electronic records archive that won't become obsolete is technically feasible
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Archives gives in to e-records
Paper is crushed. The National Archives has declared the dominance of electronic documents.
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Archives reconsidering records policies, formats
NARA officials say it is time to reexamine records management policies that were developed to handle paper records
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First Y2K, now 'Titanic'
An information technology crisis is coming that will dwarf the Year 2000 problem in cost and disruption, according to technology expert Rich Lysakowski. Look out for electronic document migration.
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System automates archivists' decisions
Archivists and publicservice lawyers have spent years in federal courts trying to determine which documents are 'records' and how they should be preserved. Now there is a software system designed to decide that instantly.
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Fate of e-records back in feds' court
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the legal skirmish over the government's handling of electronic records is finished. But the more difficult struggle to create a national electronic archive has only begun.
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Court halts electronic records case
As the Supreme Court declines to hear the case of Public Citizen v. Carlin, the national archivist pledges 'practical methods for managing and preserving records in the Electronic Era'
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E-process: Putting workflow on the Web
The World Wide Web has changed the way many departments and agencies work, providing offsite staff members and contractors easy access to the home office.
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You've got mail
And how the National Archives is wrestling with what to do with the millions of email messages produced by the Clinton administration
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Making documents safe for workflow
With governments starting to lay a foundation for electronic commerce, many state and local agencies are looking to commercial solutions for building public-key infrastructure systems.
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As the Web Turns
Although many states have made progress in formulating policies to address electronic records management issues related to new systems, legacy systems and e-mail, most consider records generated on World Wide Web sites to be the most difficult to master.
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