Digitization is vital to reform government records management, said Archivist...
Digitization is vital to reform government records management, said Archivist of the United States David Ferriero at the FOSE conference Wednesday. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is progressing on digitization efforts among government agencies by helping them improve…
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their records management systems, he said: “Records management should be taken seriously, not as a minor afterthought, by all federal agencies.” The administration has encouraged federal agencies to complete an assessment of their records managements systems. Of the agencies who responded, 95 percent were at high risk of compromising the authenticity, integrity and reliability of their records, he said. Many records are facing the risk of being lost forever, and that is why agencies must act now, he said. NARA is gathering information and best practices that it can include in a records management directive, which will help other agencies reform the way they manage their records. Additionally, NARA has been digitizing its records, he said, citing a recent example of when NARA moved U.S. census information online for the first time on April 2. The site has already received 63 million hits since its launch, he said.