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National Archives Completes Gov't E-records System
News The National Archives has completed its Seamless Flow Programme to automate the preservation of electronic government records. The National Archives said that 95 percent of government records are now produced electronically, with substantial...
[August 18, 2008, 8:25]
The National Archives Meets Customer Targets Set In Freedom Of Information Act
White Papers In order to comply with the Act, The National Archives required a system that would provide access to both its corporate records and archives (records transferred from the government departments). The National Archives of England, Wales and the...
[March 15, 2006, 23:00]
Councils Struggling With E-archives
News National Archives, the organisation which sets standards and supports innovation in information and records management, found that local government is a long way behind Whitehall in making arrangements for digital preservation.
[March 4, 2008, 13:22]
JFK Archives To Be Put Online
News The 10-year project to build a new digital library is a joint collaboration between IT vendor EMC, the Kennedy Presidential Library and the US National Archives and Records Administration. The archives of the Kennedy Presidential Library's research...
[June 13, 2006, 11:00]
FoI Opens Up Intelligence Files
News The files can be accessed at the National Archives in Kew, but some are also available through the records centre's Web site. A spokesperson for the National Archives told Government Computing News that only a small selection are initially...
[January 5, 2005, 14:21]
Millennium Of UK History Heads Online
News The way records are managed and selected will be improved and the agency will launch a programme to raise public awareness and understanding of archives. Copies of records can now be ordered online via the National Archives website.
[August 20, 2004, 13:55]
Public Records
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[October 8, 2005, 12:31]
Encoded Archival Description
White Papers Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an emerging standard used internationally in an increasing number of archives and manuscripts libraries to encode data,describing corporate records and personal papers.
[September 24, 2003, 2:04]
The National Archives Achieves Customer Targets Set In The Freedom Of Information Act With Hornbill's Supportworks
White Papers The National Archives uses Supportworks to handle requests for information from records and documents housed at its premises in Kew, West London. Hornbill Systems supplied its Supportworks system to The National Archives, enabling the organisation...
[March 15, 2006, 23:00]
Maintaining Network Continuity And Recovering Data After A Terrorist Attack
White Papers These can range from long-term problems stemming from the loss of irreplaceable archives involving medical records, insurance, government or business documents to more immediate requirements for financial or possible medical or other vital records...
[January 25, 2005, 2:00]
Retrieval Issues For The Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database
White Papers The Colorado Digitization Project (CDP), begun in the fall of 1998, is a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. The project is creating a union catalog of metadata records and has...
[April 14, 2005, 3:00]
Java Web Services Help To Enhance Customer Service While Reducing Cost
White Papers The solution was Iron Mountain Digital Archives through which customers have online access for records management, Sun Java Studio and Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in 1951, Iron Mountain...
[March 11, 2005, 23:00]
Report Backs PDF Variant For Long-term Archiving
News The UK's National Archives has welcomed a report that backs a variant of Adobe's portable document format standard as a reliable way of preserving documents for future use. On Thursday the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
US Army Relies On Oracle9iAS Portal For Knowledge Management System
White Papers PEO EIS' centralized knowledge management system, named Adapa for the Babylonian god of knowledge, improves staff job performance by automating internal business processes such as document management and expense tracking; organizing the PEO's...
[August 4, 2005, 0:00]
EMC EmailXtender Provides E-mail Records Management For Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
White Papers EMC EmailXtender is a comprehensive e-mail archiving and management solution that captures (in real time), indexes (full text), and archives e-mail, instant messages, and attachments. It also helps organizations reduce the risks and costs...
[April 4, 2008, 6:41]
Nuclear Shelter Turns To Email
News The company has invested more than $50m (£27.1m) in a "digital archives" business, designed to help clients comply with new data-handling regulations. Richard Reese has plenty of experience managing paper records, and he's trying to bring that know...
[June 1, 2004, 12:00]
Reading By The Light Of The Fire: Google Versus The Historian
Blog He mentions without comment that as microfiche records took hold, they encouraged libraries and archives to destroy original documents. The libraries and archives themselves, to say nothing of their denizens, are part of the green fuse of knowledge...
[November 4, 2007, 14:52]
Privacy Watchdog To Lead Data-sharing Review
News The prime minister's package also includes a review of the "30-year rule", the date by which government departments must transfer public records to the National Archives and the date at which records become considered "historical".
[October 26, 2007, 12:20]
Massachusetts Officials Clash Over Move To OpenDocument
News With the rise of electronic archives over traditional records, "(Galvin's) power is being eroded," the official said. Pacheco then called on Alan Cote, the state's supervisor of public records, as a witness.
[November 2, 2005, 9:25]
British Library Lists Rare Books On Amazon
News In October, legal changes allowed the library to add archives of Web sites and emails to its legal deposit of printed materials. The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to...
[November 24, 2003, 17:00]
