GAO: Archives’ Proposed System Lacks Key Elements

Here’s A Short internet.com piece on a new report [PDF] by the General Accounting Office that says The National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) proposed Electronic Records Archive (ERA) project is missing key elements of recognized industry standards.

Charged with preserving government records in perpetuity, NARA says electronic records “pose the biggest challenge ever” due to the rate of technological obsolescence combined with the expanding number of diverse electronic records created on different systems within the government.

August 29, 2003 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    August 30, 2003 at 3:57 am

    Municipal archives.
    Many of our cities’ public libraries have negleted that part of acquisitions and accessions that should include their respective municipalities public documentation such as city department heads’ reports, city consultants’ studies and city consultants’ reports.

    For example, in Boston there is even resistance to reference enquiries at reference desks when Boston Public Library is asked for city public documents produced by the lib itself.

    References
    Collaborative weblog
    A guide to problematical library use
    http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.blog-city.co m

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