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Digital Preservation Ambiguity

April 15th, 2008 by John Wonderlich · No Comments

From NARA Guidance on Managing Web Records:

Records Schedule - A document describing records of an agency, organization, or administrative unit, establishing a timetable for their life cycle, and providing authorization for their disposition [Society of American Archivists Glossary], i.e., destruction or transfer to the National Archives. (p. 25)

Combine that with this:

There are currently no items in the General Records Schedules that were developed to specifically cover web records. (p. 23)

…and it would seem that the regulations covering electronic records management and preservation are spotty at best.

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