abstract
| - The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) is an office of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) which was officially established in 2000. Initial planning and development of ERA began in 1997. The President and Congress supported ERA with appropriations. In 2008, ERA accepted its first records from four pilot agencies. The website is [1]. More information on the Wikipedia page [2]
- Since 2001, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been working to develop a modern Electronic Records Archives (ERA) system — a major information system that is intended to preserve and provide access to massive volumes of all types and formats of electronic records. According to NARA, this major information system is estimated to cost between $456 and $481 million and is intended to preserve and provide access to massive volumes of all types of electronic records, independent of their original hardware or software. NARA plans for the system to manage the full life-cycle of electronic records, consisting of the following six key functions:
* Ingest enables the transfer of electronic records from federal agencies.
* Archival storage enables stored records to be managed in a way that guarantees their integrity and availability.
* Records management supports scheduling, appraisal, description, and requests to transfer custody of all types of records, as well as ingesting and managing electronic records, including the capture of selected records data (such as origination date, format, and disposition).
* Preservation enables secure and reliable storage of files in formats in which they were received, as well as creating backup copies for off-site storage.
* Local services and control regulates how the ERA components communicate with each other, manages internal security, and enables telecommunications and system network management.
* Dissemination enables users to search descriptions and business data about all types of records and to search the content of electronic records and retrieve them.
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