NARA approves two methods for transferring records

Agencies transferring permanent records to the National Archives and Records Administration now can use digital tape or File Transfer Protocol, the agency said in a final rule published in the Federal Register.

The final rule takes effect Jan. 29. NARA published a proposed rule June 26 and received seven comments, including six from agency employees.

NARA conducted a pilot for alternatives to media transfer methods and found FTP and digital tape to be reliable and secure, the final rule said.

The rule does not restrict the format of electronic records, but NARA said it is looking at formats other than ASCII and EBCDIC as part of its E-Records Management E-Government initiative.


About the Author

Connect with the GCN staff on Twitter @GCNtech.

Featured

  • Defense
    Ryan D. McCarthy being sworn in as Army Secretary Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo credit: Sgt. Dana Clarke/U.S. Army)

    Army wants to spend nearly $1B on cloud, data by 2025

    Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said lack of funding or a potential delay in the JEDI cloud bid "strikes to the heart of our concern."

  • Congress
    Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) at the Hack the Capitol conference Sept. 20, 2018

    Jim Langevin's view from the Hill

    As chairman of of the Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committe and a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rhode Island Democrat Jim Langevin is one of the most influential voices on cybersecurity in Congress.

Stay Connected

FCW INSIDER

Sign up for our newsletter.

I agree to this site's Privacy Policy.
https://fcw.com/articles/2003/01/02/nara-approves-two-methods-for-transferring-records.aspx
fcw.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-43
85690
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:IACFZUV4CXM4YOLWY7VIMQ2CBR6U75NF
<urn:uuid:489c60ad-f419-4733-ba5f-406cc545043d>
2019-10-22T20:07:57Z
66.77.93.18
text/html
sha1:GMOTO77KEK7TLITYNOFMFBNQU3M3UBLM
<urn:uuid:63317089-0682-47f6-a008-af0323a8d74b>
https://fcw.com/articles/2003/01/02/nara-approves-two-methods-for-transferring-records.aspx
response
<urn:uuid:79956af3-5a48-4b4f-b5f5-92386c323e14>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-43
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-144.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/