With 85 percent of the Bush Administration records now in the ERA system, Morphy says the Archives is on schedule to complete digitizing the complete record of the [(George W.)] Bush '43' Bush administration by the end of this month.
In one case, Morphy told reporters that e-mail from the Bush White House was converted from Microsoft's Exchange server format into an unspecified "open source" format, in order to make all the e-mail messages of administration staff searchable.
David Kepley, Federal Records Transition Officer for the Archives ERA project says that along with the Bush material, the Archives has also been hard at work entering into ERA what he described as a "mountain" of other government information:
To date, we have ingested more than 67 gigabytes of material, representing 1300 accession transactions. Most of this comes from our own materials which we've been collecting since 1969, but some of it comes from our four pilot agencies (participating in the ERA project), as well as materials that came to us from other agencies. The agencies we've been working with on a pilot basis over the last several years are:
+ The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
+ The National Nuclear Security Administration
+ The Bureau of Labor Statistics
+ The Naval Oceanographic office
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