electronic records

FILE - This Jan. 23, 2020, file photo shows the National Archives in the Sand Point neighborhood of Seattle that has about a million boxes of generally unique, original source documents and public records. In an announcement made Thursday, April 8, 2021, the Biden administration has halted the sale of the federal archives building in Seattle, following months of opposition from people across the Pacific Northwest and a lawsuit by the Washington Attorney General's Office. Among the records at the center are tribal, military, land, court, tax and census documents. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

National Archives prepares to ramp up work in new federal records system

The new system, nearly a decade in the making, is crucial to agencies managing an ever-growing store of digital records.

Open Data/Transparency

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Federal records chief says ‘culture of paper’ persists at agencies

IT Modernization

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White House extends e-records deadline to June 2024

Technology

FILE - People walk up the steps even though the National Archives is closed with the partial government shutdown Dec. 22, 2018, in Washington. The nominee to head the National Archives is set to face an abnormally contentious Senate confirmation hearing this week. President Joe Biden nominated Colleen Shogan to take over the nation's record-keeping agency last month. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

NARA preps agencies to move to new e-records system in early 2023

Open Data/Transparency

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White House, NARA consider next steps as electronic records deadline looms

Technology

Library of Congress expanded online content in response to the pandemic

Open Data/Transparency

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VA launches strategic review, considers schedule changes amid concerns with new EHR

Veterans Affairs

NARA seeks workforce reskilling, AI tools in weaning agencies off paper records

Technology

OMB, NARA nudge paperless government

Tom Temin Commentary

Paper records phase-out looks to ‘accelerate digital transformation’

Management

In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019 photo a sign for the entrance to the National Archives is seen in College Park, Md. A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, at least the second theft case involving the research facility. Robert Rumsby, of Fredericksburg, Va., told investigators he took dog tags that belonged to four U.S. airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court last month. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Agencies told to phase out paper records by December 2022

Federal Newscast

Data hoarding & records management

John Cofrancesco, vice president, Business Development at Active Navigation, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss records…

Federal Tech Talk

In this photo taken Monday, July 18, 2016, boxes of California inmate medical records are stored at a facility in Sacramento, Calif. A massive project to computerize the prison system's antiquated paper-based medical record-keeping for the nearly 130,000 inmates has doubled in cost from the original estimates to nearly $400 million. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

NARA: Move to digital records ‘does not get cheaper,’ but easier to manage

While the Trump administration expects agencies will spend less on records management in the long-term, NARA says agencies might save on time, but probably…

Agency Oversight

NARA: Most agencies on-track to transition from paper to digital records

Agency Oversight

The vast majority of agencies claim they’re on track to meet a key deadline in the path towards making the government less dependent on paper records, according to a new report from the National Archives and Records Administration.