To date, federal agencies are required to submit only email permanent records exclusively in electronic format to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). However, by the end of this year, agencies should be managing all permanent records in electronic format – and that includes...
As the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) pushes federal agencies ever closer to managing all permanent records in electronic format, another dimension of record-keeping is taking on newfound importance: metadata. Agencies that want to comply with NARA’s requirements for managing and submitting all permanent...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will no longer accept analog records from federal agencies after December 31, 2022. Indeed, NARA is doing its best to go all-in on electronic records retention. It’s strategic plan for 2018-2022 includes digitizing “billions of pages of records...
According to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), "Temporary records are those records that NARA approves for either immediate disposal or for disposal after a specified time or event." Temporary records are no easier to manage than permanent records, and in some ways, they may...
June 15, 2019 – Duluth, GA – Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL), a leading provider of records management and digitization services, is pleased to announce that it has been granted certification under ISO/IEC 27002 by global certification authority G-Certi. The ISO/IEC 27017:2015 standard offers guidelines for establishing...
The foundational law underlying federal recordkeeping, the Federal Records Act (Title 44 of the U.S. Code) was enacted in 1950 to “govern the collection, retention, preservation, and possibly destruction of federal agency records.” The FRA has been amended multiple times, most recently in 2014 and...
When creating records, especially those intended for long-term preservation and archiving, records managers must consider an enormous number of variables to ensure the records will serve their intended purpose. This is particularly true when creating an electronic version of a physical or analog record (for...
With the urgency imposed by NARA on federal agencies to store and manage permanent electronic records in a native electronic format this year, many agencies may find themselves tempted to assess potential solutions according to what’s easiest (cheapest, fastest, least work) rather than what’s best....
Though NARA requires that federal agencies manage all permanent electronic records in electronic format by the end of this year, they have not mandated that the records management system used be automated. As NARA's Use Cases guidance states, "The steps through the [records management] life...
March 13, 2019 – Duluth, GA – Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL), a leading provider of records digitization services, is pleased to announce that it has been granted approval as a Schedule 36 General Services Administration (GSA) vendor to provide services under contract 47QSMA19D08PC through 2024....
