Unlocking Data from Digital Archives

While government modernization has digitized vast archives, it has inadvertently produced disconnected modern data silos where critical institutional knowledge remains trapped and unusable. This whitepaper outlines a strategic roadmap to dismantle these silos using Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to extract, structure, and classify dormant records. By pairing automated processing with metadata governance and risk-based human validation, agencies can transform fragmented collections into accessible, AI-ready assets that advance current missions.