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DoD releases updated declassification guidelines
The Defense Department has updated classification and declassification guidelines to help agencies determined what should be public knowledge, particularly when it comes to national security.
Tags: Ed Kaufhold , declassification , DoD , national security , Federal Drive
OGIS website helps streamline FOIA process, resolve disputes
National Archives and Records Administration recently launched the OGIS Access System to streamline and increase transparency of the FOIA process.
Tags: OGIS , Candace Boston , FOIA , good government , best practices , management
OGIS is 'new kid' on FOIA's block
Miriam Nisbet, director of the Office of Government Information Services, explains how her agency's role is different from the Justice Department's when it comes to the Freedom of Information Act.
Tags: Miriam Nesbit , DoJ , OGIS
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
For the past year, the Library of Congress has been working with Twitter in a transfer of the company's entire electronic data set. Library's digital director sees this as a "unique record of our time."
Tags: Library of Congress , twitter , technology , Internet , data , Federal Drive , information sharing
NARA to lay out steps for digital archives
NARA's chief records officer, Paul Wester, gives a peek of a governmentwide framework for managing electronic records.
Tags: Paul Wester , technology , digital records , Barack Obama , Federal Drive
How will Twitter, social media play into new record-keeping policy?
How exactly does an agency store a tweet? And how do agencies know when the latest 140-character mini-message rises to the level of a permanently valuable historical record? A new Presidential memo tasks the National Archives and Records Administration with answer these social-media stumpers.
Tags: records management , Paul Wester , social media , technolgoy , Jack Moore
Agencies have 120 days to start getting e-records in shape
In a new memo, President Barack Obama tasked agencies with reviewing their policies for storing and managing electronic communications, including emails and social media postings. Agencies must submit reviews of their current policies in 120 days. Meanwhile, the National Archives and Records Administration plans to develop a governmentwide framework.
Tags: David Ferriero , records management , Barack Obama , social media , GAO , Catherine Teti , Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , Anne Weismann , Emily Kopp , Jack Moore
National Archives extends its reach via social media
Pamela Wright, chief digital access strategist, describes how the public is helping the National Archives bring its content to the Internet via social media.
Tags: Pamela Wright , social media , Federal Drive , Internet , technology , Facebook , twitter , Flickr , Michael OConnell
IG: SEC should have kept records it destroyed
The Securities and Exchange Commission should have kept thousands of documents it destroyed from preliminary investigations of financial firms over nearly two decades, according to a government report released Tuesday.
Tags: SEC , Charles Grassley , records management ,
NARA tackling records management in the cloud
The archives is working with the CIO Council to figure out how to move records stored in the cloud more easily and ensure their authenticity. Mike Wash, NARA's CIO, said this is a problem looming for every agency as more and more of them move to the cloud computing. NARA is considering how to move its internal email to a managed service provider.
October 12, 2011(Encore presentation November 24, 2011)
Tags: technology , Mike Wash , cloud computing , records management , ERA , meta data , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
