State of the Transition 2020: Where Do U.S. Federal Agencies Stand in Meeting NARA’s Next Digitization Deadlines?

16 Mar State of the Transition 2020: Where Do U.S. Federal Agencies Stand in Meeting NARA’s Next Digitization Deadlines?

For the past several years, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been pushing federal agencies to manage more and more records in electronic format. As the government transitions away from analog and paper-based record-keeping, NARA has imposed a series of accelerating objectives:

• Manage all permanent and temporary emails in an accessible electronic format by the end of 2016
• Manage all permanent electronic records in electronic format by the end of 2019
• Manage all permanent records in electronic format with appropriate metadata and manage all temporary records in electronic format (or store them in a commercial records facility) by the end of 2022

Where does the federal government stand on meeting these requirements?

To learn more, read the full article over on the TransAccessDM blog.