Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration Recommendations for a Long-Term Strategy (2005) / Chapter Skim
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4 Broadening Research Interactions
4 Broadening Research Interactions
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report, Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government,2 broadly considers the rationale for IT research by a broader set of federal mission agencies. It concludes that, where possible, government should follow the private sector in designing and 1Twelve agencies or major units of agencies were participants in 2004 in the National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development, which coordinates activities and prepares an annual summary of the federal IT R&D budget.
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Its purpose is to provide a distributed interoperable network that will provide efficient and effective access to users, regard less of location, and be linked using a logical name space to create global, persistent identifiers. SOURCE: National Archives and Records Administration.
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The selection of specific research proposals and routine management of the research process -- for example, selecting among peer-reviewed IT research proposals or maintaining an arm's-length relationship with research organizations -- are capabilities that these agencies have developed over time as they have gained experience, identified and worked with particular research communities, brought in researchers to manage programs, and otherwise developed research management talent. These organizations maintain relationships with varied research and user communities, which gives them easy access to a wide range of expertise and peer review when needed.
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It has partnered with the National Science Foundation to establish a research grant program focused on digital preservation and has launched joint research activities with four universities to investigate various approaches to digital preservation using a test collection. A number of the technical problems faced by NARA are likely to be faced by other agencies as well.
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The VA also faces a comparable challenge in standardizing veterans' electronic health records across all of its components and in implementing "upstream" creation and capture of veterans' electronic health records that facilitate access for 75 years or more. Setting aside the commitment of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
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Almost every text classification algorithm developed in the preceding decade was tested on these data sets, and hundreds of research papers have been published about them, none paid for by Reuters. Similar stories can be told about data sets from news organizations such as the Wall Street Journal, AP Newswire, Ziff-Davis, and the Financial Times, and about medical data sets based on the National Library of Medicine's MedLine system.
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NARA's contributions in this case might well not involve direct support for research; NARA could make significant contributions to the research community by making corpora available, stating its own requirements clearly, and learning from research sponsored by other agencies. · Scholars' tools for searching large collections of records.
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Here a modest level of funding in a jointly funded program of research looking broadly at digital preservation problems might be appropriate. · How to preserve Web sites.
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Is an end-to-end scheme that would span hundreds of years possible? CONCLUDING REMARKS With necessarily limited resources, a limited capacity to manage research programs, and a large set of research challenges related to the general topic of archiving and digital preservation, NARA has to decide how and where it should invest.
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