In 2010, the MFAH received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to plan the implementation of an electronic records archive (ERA) for preserving the museum’s permanent born-digital records. Under the grant, the MFAH Archives and Information Technology departments are collaboratively exploring emerging technologies in pursuit of a sustainable ERA system. The E-Records blog highlights some of the aspirations for the system.
Posts Tagged e-records,
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03 NovThu / 2011
![](/site_media/cache/3c/cf/3ccf452de0e67afcac1d0fcfbd13790e.jpg "© Dennis Blagg, Dennis Blagg, Nugent Mountain, 1993, oil on canvas.
Gift of William R. Camp, Jr., in honor of Frank J. Hevrdejs and Louis Tenenbaum
at "One Great Night in November, 1993"")
Back in January of 2010, the news that the National Historical Publications and Records Commission would fund the MFAH’s two-year Electronic Records Archives (ERA) planning grant was met with elation by the project team, which originally consisted of the chief technology officer, the director of information technology, the records manager, and myself, the Archives director. (A third I.T. staffer was added last spring to assist in the painstaking process of paring down the National Archives...
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03 NovThu / 2011
In January of 2010, the MFAH Archives received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to study and plan the implementation of a trustworthy electronic records archive over a two-year period. The objective of the grant is to extend the archival function of preserving the museum’s permanent records into the electronic realm, since, after all, that is how records are created these days. Two years seemed a luxurious amount of time back...
