It’s Not Too Late: 5 Ways You Can Get Help to Meet NARA’s Electronic Records Mandate

It’s Not Too Late: 5 Ways You Can Get Help to Meet NARA’s Electronic Records Mandate

An image of pixellated hands reaching for each otherIt’s not too late for government agencies to still meet the electronic records management deadline set by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), even if they’re a little behind schedule … with a little help.

Specifically, federal agencies have until the end of this year to start submitting all permanent and temporary records in electronic format, including all appropriate metadata, to NARA. This is an aggressive timeline further complicated by the fact it’s actually several deadlines combined into one. Converting analog records into electronic format is a wholly different project from managing born-digital records, for example. And according to last year’s Senior Agency Officials for Records Management (SAORM) reports, agencies are facing some steep challenges.

Read the full post on our TransAccessDM blog.