National Archives Will Go Digital

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
The National Archives--home of the centuries-old parchment bearing the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights--is getting an electronic filing system.
The Electronic Records Archives is scheduled to open by 2007, offering a huge Internet-enabled system of databases that will store the growing torrent of electronic government documents. It is expected to be completed in 2011, after the last of seven stages of construction, encompassing several petabytes (a million gigabytes) of data. At a ceremony this week announcing the two finalists vying for the contract, a sign next to the podium read: "Two nationally known companies will compete to design a system that will capture electronic information, preserve it forever and make it accessible at any time, from any place."
This will be a great patriotic digital centerpiece that hopefully the hackers won't ruin. -KF

Source: PCWorld
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