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Archive for 'Records Management'How are you celebrating Sunshine Week?This week is “Sunshine Week,” a week-long celebration of government openness! Here’s a roundup of activities you might want to do as you celebrate Sunshine Week: Participate in the Open Government Idea Forum on IdeaScale. Help shape the National Archives’ Open Government Plan. Your ideas and input matter! Participate in the Managing Government Records discussion [...] Posted by Jessie on March 15, 2012, under Events, Miscellaneous, Open Government, Records Management, Social Media (Web 2.0). Help us strengthen open government at the National Archives!Starting today, we need your ideas, comments, and votes to help us revise the Open Government Plan of the National Archives. Please visit the Open Government Idea Forum and take a few minutes to let us know what you think we should be doing to strengthen transparency, participation, and collaboration at the National Archives. Two [...] Posted by Meredith Stewart on February 22, 2012, under Archives.gov Redesign, DC-area Researchers, Digitization, Open Government, Records Management, Social Media (Web 2.0), Wikipedian in Residence. Appraising US District Court RecordsToday’s post comes from Arian Ravanbakhsh, electronic records policy analyst in the Modern Records Programs at the National Archives. Our colleagues over at Records Express have written about the details of a records appraisal project that will result in considerably more records being transferred to us for permanent retention and made available for researchers. You [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on August 18, 2011, under Electronic Records, Records Management. I Get By With a Little Help From My FriendsMaybe it was Memphis (with apologies to Pam Tillis) Recently in Nashville, Tennessee, the Council of State Archivists and the National Association of Government Records Administrators and Archives came together to share new ideas and renew old acquaintances. About 175 archivists and records administrators were in attendance. That’s down from last year both because of [...] Posted by David McMillen on August 2, 2011, under Events, Records Management, Social Media (Web 2.0). Muckraking for the 21st CenturyI invite you to join me on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 for the Media Access to Government Information Conference (MAGIC) at the National Archives downtown. The goal of the conference is to discuss how technology might improve access to government information for journalists and citizens alike. The conference is free, open to the public, and [...] Posted by David McMillen on March 30, 2011, under DC-area Researchers, Electronic Records, Events, NCAST, Open Government, Records Management. Records Management and E-discovery: Making Beautiful MusicMy bottom line: I want to believe the next generation of public servants will do right by the American people by managing and preserving the government’s born-digital records, and providing the means for continuing access to them, so as to ensure that the history of the 21st century is properly preserved. Posted by Mark on March 22, 2011, under Records Management, Tech Tuesdays. Tech Tuesday: NCAST is now on Facebook!NARA’s Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST) now has its very own official Facebook page. You can find it at https://www.facebook.com/NARACAST. On our page you will find, among other things: Links to papers, reports and presentations by our Research Partners Links to sites where you can download or try online free software developed by [...] Posted by Mark on March 1, 2011, under Electronic Records, NCAST, Records Management, Tech Tuesdays. Tech Tuesday Tribute: Ken ThibodeauToday’s post is a Tech Tribute to a NARA pioneer in the field of electronic records preservation. Dr. Ken Thibodeau, after a distinguished career in the Federal Government, has retired from NARA as of 1.1.11. In 1975, Ken joined NARA’s Machine-Readable Archives Division, where he became part of a team that surveyed federal agencies on [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on January 4, 2011, under Electronic Records, NCAST, Records Management, Tech Tuesdays. Have Your Say: 2010 Census Records!Genealogists, you love census records. I would easily nominate you as their No. 1 fan! Census records are rock stars for those who love to research family history. Have you ever wondered what it will be like to research the 2010 Census records in the future? The decisions about what is permanently kept are being [...] Posted by Meredith Stewart on December 9, 2010, under DC-area Researchers, Genealogy / Family History, Open Government, Records Management. Tech Tuesday: NARA @ NITRDThis week’s Tech Tuesday post comes from NCAST blogger, Mark Conrad. Who wouldn’t want to sit at the table where important decisions are made? Who would turn down an invitation from the White House? Who would turn down an opportunity to leverage billions of dollars of other agencies’ Research and Development (R&D) funds? Not NCAST, [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on November 2, 2010, under Education, Records Management, Research, Tech Tuesdays. |
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