Information Management: Challenges in Managing and Preserving Electronic Records

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U.S. General Accounting Office, 2002
A report on the challenges associated with the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) efforts to respond to government-wide electronic records management problems and its future plans.
 

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Página 76 - Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or Its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the Informational value of data contained therein.
Página 67 - The Patent Law requires only that the Specification, including the Drawings, together be understandable and enabling to one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention. "The words...
Página 75 - records" includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in pursuance of Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by...
Página 5 - Administrator in applying standards, procedures, and techniques designed to improve the management of records, promote the maintenance and security of records deemed appropriate for preservation, and facilitate the segregation and disposal...
Página 28 - The architecture describes the enterprise's operations in both (1) logical terms, such as interrelated business processes and business rules, information needs and flows, and work locations and users, and (2) technical terms, such as hardware, software, data, communications, and security attributes and performance standards. It provides these perspectives both for the enterprise's current or "as is...
Página 72 - Although some program documentation deliverables have not been completed on schedule, all items on the "critical path" have been completed on time, and we expect to meet all milestones on the critical path this year. Second, the report suggests aligning the project schedule for deliverables from the study NARA is sponsoring by the Computer Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with the system acquisition schedule. The NAS study is divided into two parts, with a separate...
Página 32 - ... infects" computer files, usually executable programs, by inserting a copy of itself into the file. These copies are usually executed when the infected file is loaded into memory, allowing the virus to infect other files. Unlike the computer worm, a virus requires human involvement (usually unwitting) to propagate.
Página 4 - Federal agency shall cause to be made and preserved records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities.
Página 77 - Usenet is a world-wide distributed discussion system. It consists of a set of "newsgroups" with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. Articles" or "messages" are "posted" to these newsgroups by people on computers with the appropriate software — these articles are then broadcast to other interconnected computer systems via a wide variety of networks.

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