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Grants available for preservation R&D
Feds are offering $2.3 million in research grants for managing and preserving digital information.
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DISA selects e-records file management standard
DISA has selected software that uses an Internet open standard for document and file management that supports e-records
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A crisis for Web preservation
Fugitive documents published on the Web are not being preserved
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Making technology work for record management
Tech execs and records managements need to understand each other, analysts say.
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Putting records to work
FBI creates a records management organization that helps agents fight crime
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Four universities to test preservation handling
Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Old Dominion will be partners in a test of procedures for handling large digital collections slated for preservation.
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Equitrac boosts control of paper mountain
Equitrac Office 3.0 gives IT administrators control document distribution and costs
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Seattle digitizes crime records
ABM America is providing four products to form an integrated system for the Seattle police department.
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GPO hunts fugitives
The Government Printing Office will send out a Web bot to find so-called fugitive documents.
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Defense, VA lack common data exchange
The two agencies remain far apart when it comes to sharing digital medical records, GAO says.
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Records group readies report
The Electronic Records Policy Working Group also plans to create tools to help agencies.
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Digitizing groovy records
Library of Congress officials hope particle physics equipment can map those old turntable and phonograph recordings.
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Contracts planned for ERA design
Federal officials expect to award two contracts by early fall for the design phase of the Electronic Records Archives.
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NASA to merge media archives
Space officials want proposals for a NASA archiving system that would create a one-stop multimedia source for the public.
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Records overseers push for architecture spot
Federal information and records managers want to have their say in federal enterprise architecture.
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Agencies to organize digital records
By 2007, the National Archives and Records Administration anticipates having an operational archive for digital materials.
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