Digitization project at Archives 1 (Room 18W2) National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is our fourth blog post taking a deep dive into 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E--Digitizing Permanent Records, which takes effect next week. In this post, we address quality management (QM) which includes the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) requirements provided in the … Continue reading Digitizing Records: Quality Management
Digitization project at Archives 1. National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is the third in a series of posts supporting the publication of 36 CFR section 1236 subpart E - Digitizing Permanent Records. All of the posts have been collected under the 36 CFR Section 1236 category. Digitization has become a crucial component of record-keeping for … Continue reading Digitizing Records: Documentation
Digital Imaging Lab [technologies] at Archives 2--[photographed for] Prologue use.National Archives Identifier: 184340999 We continue our series of posts to support the publication of 36 CFR section 1236 subpart E - Digitizing Permanent Records, which provides the requirements for digitizing permanent records. Records management is a crucial part of any agency operation, and the rise … Continue reading Digitizing Records: Getting Started
Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts on the new rule for digitizing federal records. As we mentioned in a previous post, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently published the final rule for digitizing permanent federal records. This new rule, known as 36 CFR § 1236 Subpart E, will be … Continue reading New Rule for Digitizing Records: What you need to know
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45022 When NARA released its revised Format Guidance for the Transfer of Permanent Electronic Records in 2014, we identified the file formats acceptable for use by Federal agencies when transferring permanent email messages to NARA. These formats include EML, MBOX, MSG, and PST. Notable for its omission is PDF. This might seem surprising since regardless … Continue reading Email in PDF – Pushing the (email) envelope.
Today on Records Express, guest author Alina M. Semo, Director of the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Ombudsman’s office, discusses the vital role records management teams play in agencies’ responses to FOIA requests. You can read more about OGIS’s work at The FOIA Ombudsman and on their … Continue reading Records Management and FOIA: So Happy Together
On Thursday, August 6, we co-hosted a virtual Collaboration Day with the General Services Administration (GSA) on electronic records management solutions. The Collaboration Day was part of our Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). At the event, we provided updates including the release of Version 2 of the Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements, our work … Continue reading FERMI Collaboration Day
This post is written by Sharmila Bhatia and Michael Horsley. We have added Navigational Charts to Appendix A: Table of File Formats of NARA Bulletin 2014-04, Format Guidance for the Transfer of Permanent Records. Records in this format can now be transferred as permanent records to the National Archives. NAID 1022792431799 A Map of the … Continue reading Navigational Charts added to NARA’s Format Guidance Bulletin
We are requesting comments on our draft Universal Use Cases as part of our Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). Through FERMI, we have been working to improve the way agencies acquire ERM services and solutions. The use cases are a part of the Electronic Records Management Federal Integrated Business Framework (ERM-FIBF) and can serve … Continue reading Opportunity to Comment: Draft Universal Use Cases
We are pleased to announce the release of the Universal Electronic Records Management (ERM) Requirements, Version 2 as part of our Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). Through this initiative, we have been working to improve the way agencies acquire ERM services and solutions. We first released the Universal ERM Requirements in August 2017. We … Continue reading Release of Universal Electronic Records Management Requirements, Version 2
