Digital Government: Proposal for a Workshop to Develop a Research Agenda on Digital Archiving and Preservation

EIA-0214690玛格丽特·L·赫德斯特罗姆密歇根大学数字政府：提议举办一个研讨会，以制定关于数字存档和保存的研究议程联邦政府的数字记录存档正在迅速超过对实物存档的需求-例如，预计在明年左右，国家档案和记录管理局(NARA)必须准备接受、索引并使超过2000万封联邦电子邮件可供搜索。几个机构正在考虑未来2-3年内的情况，尽管许多机构，如NARA，将被要求永久维护电子记录。出现了许多问题，例如计算机系统的自然淘汰周期为3-5年，以及操作系统和应用程序及相关文件格式的周期可能更长。这一领域的研究显然是必要的--问题之一是详细确定主题领域，并分配一些优先事项。这就是这次研讨会要达到的目的。其他几个机构将积极参加这次研讨会：国家医学图书馆、国会图书馆和国家农业图书馆。

EIA-0214690Margaret L. HedstromUniversity of MichiganDigital Government: Proposal for a Workshop to Develop a Research Agenda on Digital Archiving and PreservationArchiving of digital records in the Federal government is rapidly outstripping the need for archiving of physical objects - for example, it is expected that in the next year or so, the National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) must be prepared to accept, index, and make searchable over 20 million Federal emails.Few agencies are thinking beyond the next 2-3 years, though many, such as NARA, will be required to maintain electronic records in perpetuity. Many issues arise, such as the natural 3-5 year obsolescence cycle of computintg systems, and the perhaps longer cycle of operating systems and applications and associated file formats. Research in this area is clearly needed - the question is one of identifying topic areas in detail, and assigning some priority. That is what this workshop is intended to accomplish. Several other agencies will actively participate in this workshop: the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress and the National Agricultural Library.