Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for a Long-Term Strategy by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Computers and Information Technology : Information Technology. Computers and Information Technology : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2005-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

• The continued introduction of specialized enhanced capabilities by partners and vendors to support particular needs. For example, a third party or NARA might supply an interface that provides translations of popular audio recordings (e.g., the Nixon White House tapes) from the format in which they are archived into commonly used formats (e.g., Windows Media or Real Audio). Some of these capabilities might prove useful enough to be folded back into the ERA system proper.

• Entrepreneurial innovation to provide value-added services, through either APIs or bulk download. Today, for example, third parties provide value-added access to information in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. Similarly, commercial third parties currently provide enhanced access to old data of the U.S. Census Bureau.

• Educational materials. Overlays onto NARA holdings could be a relatively low cost method of dramatically providing a new set of services that satisfy NARA’s educational mission. Educational publishers, as well as historians and social scientists, could develop online materials that draw on NARA holdings.

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