National Archives Applied Research

Advanced Research TechWatch Presentations

The Applied Research staff work closely with a variety of NARA units to understand customer and business needs, and to evaluate technologies, theories and methods for advancing our knowledge about the lifecycle of electronic records.  Through TechWatch presentations, we gather NARA customer and business needs/requirements, and identify potential researchers and industry vendors whose products may offer solutions to common archival and records management business, and electronics records challenges, such as:

  • Networking and Security
  • Advanced Search
  • Cloud Computing Services


  • Data Warehousing/Storage
  • Data Management and
    Visualization

Applied Research TechWatch presentations are open to everyone – both NARA staff and visitors.   Presentations are held primarily at the e National Archives building at College Park, MD, but are available by teleconference and/or via NARA’s web conference site, iLinc. Additional information is on our web site http://www.archives.gov/applied-research/techwatch.html or call James McKan at 301-837-0410.

To participate by iLinc, please send an email to appliedresearch@nara.gov one week prior to the presentation to receive the access code and instructions.

2012

January

February

March

  • March 7 (2-3:00 PM, EST) – Infineta presentation on Data Migration and Backup, Virtual Machine Migrations and Time-Sensitive File Transfers. Location: Archives II, Lecture Room D. http://www.infineta.com/

  • March 8 (10-11:00 AM EST) – CGI Federal, Inc. presentation on Government Cloud Infrastructure Services, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Cloud Security, Records Management, Advanced Search, Email, and Storage. Location: Archives II, Lecture Room C.
    http://www.cgi.com/en/us-federal/services-solutions

April

  • April 05, 2012 (11:00 AM – Noon, EST) - Lecture Room C

    Deep Archives     specializes in data compression technology.  The Deep Archive® software system includes a unique geometric math compression process with a high fidelity encoding that is suitable for any digital image. Standard features include "one-button" ease of use, "set it and forget it" metadata management, and built in support for "out of the box" search engines. Deep Archive® software automatically creates large-scale Storage Area networks (SANs) using the customers' existing data network architecture. Deep Archive® Lossless compression technologies exceed all JPEG or JPEG2000 trigonometry compression math encoding.

  • April 12, 2012 (10:00 – 11:00 AM, EST) - Lecture Room E

    Access Data will demonstrate how various groups within NARA can leverage forensic search tools for Litigation Support, FOIA, eDiscovery, Records Management, Information Governance, Investigations (Fraud, Waste, and Abuse), Data Audit, Classified Spillage, and Data Leakage.  The presentation will also focus on the advanced search capabilities that their tools provide, as well as a variety of uses for them. 

  • April 18, 2012 (9:00 AM – Noon and 1-4:00 PM, EST) – Lecture Rooms B and C

    “What’s out there for Advanced Search?”
    Find out at a NARA Vendor Technology Solutions Information Day!

    Interested industry vendors responded to a call for “Advanced Search Technology Solutions Capability Statements” (Fed Biz Ops, March 22, 2012) to give presentations about existing and emerging technological solutions that could support potential advanced search requirements (e.g., conducting e-discovery or enterprise search) of archival records in NARA’s legal custody as well as the operational records of the agency.  This event supports a market research initiative to allow NARA to stay current with this fast-moving technology, and is not supporting a planned procurement at this time. 

  • April 25, 2012 (2:00 – 3:00 PM, EST) - Lecture Room B

    GimmalSoft introduces the next evolution of Enterprise Records Management: Records Management 2.0.   Records Management 2.0 is about managing not just records, but all unstructured content though a complete information lifecycle, from creation through disposition.  Records Management 2.0 brings records management concepts to the full set of organizational content, offering enterprise information management.


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