Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records

Lucas123 writes "President Obama this week issued a directive to all federal agencies to upgrade records management processes from paper-based systems that have been around since President Truman's administration to electronic records systems with Web 2.0 capabilities. Agencies have four months to come up with plans to improve their records keeping. Part of the directive is to have the National Archives and Records Administration store all long-term records and oversee electronic records management efforts in other agencies. Unfortunately, NARA doesn't have a stellar record itself (PDF) in rolling out electronic records projects. Earlier this year, due to cost overruns and project mismanagement, NARA announced it was ending a 10-year effort to create an electronic records archive."

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Re:This shouldn't cost too much.

[NotQuiteReal]

There are only about 1,300 federal agencies

Ok, mark this as troll...

Only a few dozen that should even be, per the Constitution...

Then, why a blanket "save everything" vs a "save nothing (e.g. age worthless junk)" edict?

Although, if you save stuff, e-copies do take less space... but can be digitally manipulated... so I say don't bother keeping it, if it isn't real... (you know, the old, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right")