National Archives and Records Administration Photo Contest Archives Form

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for most of the history of the United States records were recorded on paper and one of its wonderful qualities is that you can create a record on paper and then file it away and forget about it the paper will still exist the ink will still be legible the language they were written in is probably readable by people 100 140 years later but the era of the paper record is almost over this is the first Administration where the the records of the White House photo office meaning the photos taken in the White House were entirely digital we know that the electronic records will continue to grow exponentially with further administrations as a matter of comparison with the Clinton Administration we had roughly 20 million unclassified emails for Bush we have at least 200 million civil servants are all recording their actions in computer files today and so we need to be able to have a place to store those things where they're no longer trapped on the particular media on which they're originally st