Data Management
Source: Federal Computer Week "FBI Data Management a Tough Case"
From the article, "In response to the records fiasco, the FBI hired [William] Hooton, an electronic records expert with experience at the Internal Revenue Service, the National Archives and Records Administration, and private industry, and created a new 1,000-person Records Management Division. Today, the division runs "10 production lines of scanners" and aims to convert 750,000 paper documents a day into digital records, Hooton said in a Nov. 14 address to the Association for Information and Image Management. Once scanned, the electronic documents are stored in a database where they can be searched, mined and made available to FBI field offices. But converting such huge amounts of data to a more manageable electronic form is only a start toward solving the FBI's records problems, Hooton said." "Meanwhile, the FBI must tackle some other thorny records issues, such as "what constitutes an e-mail record?" Hooton said. "No one has the answer now." Similarly elusive is the answer to what constitutes a Web page record. And the Records Management Division needs help deciding whether it can destroy paper records once electronic copies have been made, he said."
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