Building the Archives of the Future

NARA’s Requriements

What is the size of the challenge?

What do we need to do?

How will we develop the
Electronic Records Archives?

NARA Partnerships

How do these activities fit together?

What is required for digital preservation?

ERA Functional Model
An Open Archival Information System Implementation

ERA Virtual Workspace Model

The Electronic Records Archives Framework

Enabling Technologies

Transformation to Persistent Object Form

Model-Based Archival & Collection Management

SDSC Storage Resource Broker
& Extensible Meta-data Catalog

Slide 16

ERA Infrastructure Concept

Demonstration Collections

Persistent Object Preservation

"Thank you."