Information Division vault in Building 50 showing rows of file folders and documents on shelves. Photograph taken April 16, 1957. Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project. National Archives Identifier: 22118242 We are pleased to announce the release of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Digitizing Temporary Records. The FAQ addresses questions about the background, requirements, and implementation … Continue reading FAQ About Digitizing Temporary Records
Digitization Project at Archives I, National Archives Identifier: 184341402 We are pleased to announce the release of the Digitization Quality Management Guide. This guide provides detailed information about the various aspects of quality management (QM) in digitization, including quality assurance and quality control, as well as the role of objective testing and automation in optimizing … Continue reading Guidance on Digitization and Quality Management
We are pleased to announce the release of NARA Bulletin 2023-04, Managing Records Created on Collaboration Platforms. We are issuing this bulletin to address agencies’ increased use of intra/inter-agency collaboration platforms to accomplish their missions. The capabilities of collaboration platforms are increasingly robust and can be used when working from any location. Within the federal … Continue reading New NARA Bulletin on Collaboration Platforms
On September 18, NARA’s Electronic Records Archives system (ERA 2.0) became available for agency records scheduling. ERA 2.0 now has full functionality for scheduling and the majority of all previous ERA data has been migrated into the system. A significant update to the system occurred last week which contained several fixes, including the ability to … Continue reading ERA 2.0 Update
We are pleased to announce the posting of the Service Measures for Electronic Records Management! We first shared drafts of the service measures on Records Express in March 2022. Thank you for all of your feedback. We created the Service Measures as part of our Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). Through FERMI, we have … Continue reading Release of Service Measures for Electronic Records Management
Our Records Management Training Program has been busy working on Records Management Instruction Support (ReMIS) projects. ReMIS has provided records management instructional design and development assistance to 21 federal agencies in FY 2023 so far. Please visit the NARA ReMIS website for a full list of services that ReMIS offers to support your Records Management … Continue reading ReMis Update
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season began June 1st and runs through November 30th. NOAA has forecast a range of 12 to 17 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, 5 to 9 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 1 to 4 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or … Continue reading Disaster Preparedness during the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season
This is the next post in a series 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. Photo imagery interpreter SGT Ted Johnson identifies a target as SSGT Doug Lucia plots it during the 1988 Worldwide Reconnaissance Air … Continue reading When We Say We Want “Resolution”: DPI and PPI Explained
Hurricane Hilary has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm and is headed toward Southern California and the Southwestern United States. Hilary is expected to produce rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches, with isolated maximum amounts up to 10 inches, across portions of the Baja California Peninsula through Sunday night. Flash flooding, locally significant, … Continue reading Hurricane Hilary Heading Toward Southern California
We would like to call your attention to three recent releases from our office. First, the GRS team has recently produced an updated version of the machine-implementable GRS file. This update adds a new field containing the full disposition instruction in text form. We produce this version of the GRS as a resource for agencies. … Continue reading Recent Updates From our Office
