Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records

Lucas123 writes "President Obama this week issued a directive to all federal agencies to upgrade records management processes from paper-based systems that have been around since President Truman's administration to electronic records systems with Web 2.0 capabilities. Agencies have four months to come up with plans to improve their records keeping. Part of the directive is to have the National Archives and Records Administration store all long-term records and oversee electronic records management efforts in other agencies. Unfortunately, NARA doesn't have a stellar record itself (PDF) in rolling out electronic records projects. Earlier this year, due to cost overruns and project mismanagement, NARA announced it was ending a 10-year effort to create an electronic records archive."

Unit Of Measurement

[wideBlueSkies]

So, how many Library of Congress equivalents worth of material are they intending to scan??

Re:Unit Of Measurement

[Anonymous Coward]

At least 1.

New Republican candidate talking point:

[forkfail]

We must save our children's heritage. President Obama obviously hates America and it's legacy, otherwise, why would he be trying to destroy all the paper records? Undoubtedly, he'll claim that his long form birth certificate was destroyed during the digitization effort. It's obviously an Islamic socialist fascist communist ACORN black panther George Soros funded plot of some sort. Also.

Re:since President Truman's administration

[siddesu]

Remember, this was when Communism tried to invade America, and so to counter it the need for a comprehensive system of records for everyone arose.