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What Happens to Electronic Records in the Archives?

The Texas Record

In a digital preservation system both the original record and the migrated record are tied together as versions of the same thing. Since file formats can vary widely, migration to standardized and common formats is important to ensure records are accessible long-term. doc to.docx) or a completely different format altogether (.doc

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What Happens to Electronic Records in the Archives?

The Texas Record

In a digital preservation system both the original record and the migrated record are tied together as versions of the same thing. Since file formats can vary widely, migration to standardized and common formats is important to ensure records are accessible long-term. doc to.docx) or a completely different format altogether (.doc

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

The memex was a hypothetical information-centric hypertext device that would permit people to access any information, regardless of where it was stored. This implies a cloud computing model that ARMA defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,