The Presidential Electronic Records Pilot System

PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
NARA ARCHIVES




  • To analyze and design software tools that support the Accession, Preservation, Arrangement, Review, and Description of electronic records.
  • To evaluate experimental and commercial natural language processing (NLP) search & retrieval tools for use in
  1. reviewing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exceptions.
  2. reviews of Privacy Act and Presidential Records Act restrictions.
  3. responding to routine reference and FOIA records requests.
  • To refine and implement the data model in an object/relational database for accession, arrangement, description and access.
  • To formulate a metadata model and associated XML Schema for storage, preservation, and content access.