The resources have been gathered from several federal, state, university and project Web sites, particularly NARA, Minnesota, Kansas, and Ohio and their assistance for providing these resources are gratefully acknowledged.  The resources has been arranged into the following sections:

• Electronic Records Resources
• Electronic Records Policies & Projects
• Digital Imaging and Document Management
• Digital Preservation
• Digital Repositories
• Electronic Mail
• Web Site Archiving
• Metadata and XML
• GIS Standards

Electronic Records Resources

American Bar Association's Law Practice Today article on Law Firm Document Retention Policy and Electronic Discovery
http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/ftr07046.html

AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) Standards
http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=24488

ARMA (Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) International
www.arma.org

Cohasset Associates (Information Management Consultants)
http://www.cohasset.com/

Electronic Record keeping Resources by Cal Lee
http://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/ermlinks/

Records and Information Management Resource List
Links to Records and Information Management (RIM) and other related websites.
http://infomgmt.homestead.com/

CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network)
A special operating Agency in the Department of Canadian Heritage, was created in 1972 to foster sound management of the knowledge and collections developed by museums and to provide public access to that knowledge through a national inventory of museum collections across the country. http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Standards/index.html

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
A non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information in our changing and ever-more digital environment. NISO standards apply both traditional and new technologies to the full range of information-related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation.
http://www.niso.org/about/index.html

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
OASIS is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php

Visual Resources Association
The Visual Resources Association is a multi-disciplinary community of image management professionals working in educational and cultural heritage environments.
http://www.vraweb.org/vracore3.htm

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
http://www.w3.org/

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United States
ARMA International. “Information Management: A Business Imperative, FAQs for Corporate Executives and Decision-Makers.” http://www.arma.org/pdf/rim_imperative.pdf.

National Archives & Records Administration, Electronic Records Archives
http://www.archives.gov/electronic_records_archives/index.html

NARA: Persistent Archives and Electronic Records Management
National Archives & San Diego Supercomputer Center
http://www.sdsc.edu/NARA/

Department of Defense DoD 5015.2-STD Records Management Application Certification Testing Page
http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/recmgt/procedures

Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Records Management Manual
http://www.epa.gov/records/index.htm

Delaware
Delaware Public Archives Model Guidelines for Electronic Records
http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/govserv/policy/Model%20Guidelines.htm#TopOf%20Page

Indiana
Indiana University (IU) Electronic Records Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~libarch/ER/

Kansas
Kansas State Historical Society, Kansas Electronic Records Management Guidelines
http://www.kshs.org/government/records/electronic/index.htm

University of Kansas Digital Library Initiatives
http://kudiglib.ku.edu

Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society, State Archives Department, Electronic Records Management Guidelines
http://ww.mnhs.org/preserve/records/electronicrecords/erguidelines.html

Michigan
Records Management Application Project
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17445_19273_21738-74194--,00.html

New York
Center for Technology in Government University at Albany, State University of New York - Models for Action: Developing Practical Approaches to Electronic Records Management and Preservation
http://www.ctg.albany.edu/projects/er/ermn.html

Ohio
Ohio Electronic Records Committee
http://www.ohiojunction.net/erc/index.html

Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
"Functional Requirements for Evidence in Record keeping"
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ercox/FunReqs.htm

Wisconsin
Guidelines for the Management of Electronic Information
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/erp/wisguide.asp

International
InterPARES Project
International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems
http://www.interpares.org/index.htm

Australia
Managing Electronic Records - a shared responsibility Managing Electronic Messages as Records
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/manage_er/summary.html

DIRKS:  A Strategic Approach to Managing Business Information
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/dirks/summary.html

Victorian Electronic Records Strategy Project
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/

New South Wales Policy on Electronic Record keeping
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publicsector/erk/electronic.htm

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Digital Imaging and Document Management Resources

Alabama
Guidelines for the Use of Digital Imaging Technologies for 
Long-Term Government Records in Alabama; the Alabama 
Department of Archives and History; April 1997
http://www.archives.state.al.us/ol_pubs/digital.html

Arizona
Microfilm and Electronic Imaging Approval
http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/records/l-micro.cfm

Georgia
Department of Archives & History
Electronic Document Imaging Systems Guidelines
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/rms/manuals/edisg.htm

Joint Information Systems Committee
Electronic Records Management System Implementation Toolkit
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/edrmtookit.html

Kentucky
Optical Storage of Public Records
http://www.kdla.state.ky.us/pubrec/optical.htm

Minnesota
IRM Standard 12, Version 1: Technical Standards for the 
Reproduction of Government Records Using Imaging Systems; 
http://www.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/portal/mn/jsp/home.do?agency=OT&agency=OT

IRM Standard 13, Version 1: Management Standards for the 
Reproduction of Government Records Using Imaging Systems; 
http://www.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/portal/mn/jsp/home.do?agency=OT&agency=OT

New York
State Office of Technology, Best Practices on Imaging, Policy 98-4
http://www.irm.state.ny.us/policy/98-4.htm

Legal Acceptance of Electronically Stored Documents, Policy 96-10
http://www.irm.state.ny.us/policy/tp_9610.htm

Wyoming
Electronic Imaging Policy for Political Subdivisions, 1998
http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/retain/digimg1.htm

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Digital Repositories

June M. Besek.  “Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment.”  Council on Library and Information Resources, January 2003.  
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub112abst.html

DSpace Durable Digital Repository
http://www.dspace.org/

Research Library Group-OCLC Reports
Trusted Digital Repositories:  Attributes and Responsibilities
http://www.rlg.org/longterm/

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Digital Preservation

Conservation OnLine (COOL)
Electronic Records and Digital Imaging
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/electronic-records/

Hodges, Gail.  “Best Practices for Digital Archiving:  An Information Life Cycle Approach.”  D-Lib Magazine 6:1 January 2000. 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

National Library of Australia, Preserving Access to Digital Information
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

Research Library Group-OCLC Reports
Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information
http://lyra.rlg.org/ArchTF/tfadi.index.htm

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Electronic Mail Policies

Arizona
University Of Arizona, Electronic Mail Policy
http://w3.arizona.edu/~records/efinal.htm

California
University of California’s Electronic Mail Policy
http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/policies/email/email.html

Indiana
University of Indiana Policy on Electronic E-Mail as Records
http://www.indiana.edu/~libarch/ER/email-policy.pdf

Kentucky
Kentucky Department of Library and Archives, Understanding Records Management: E-Mail Records
http://www.kdla.ky.gov/recmanagement/tutorial/email.htm

Maine
Electronic and Voice Mail 2.0
http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/general/admin/email.htm

Ohio
Managing Electronic Mail: Guidelines for State of Ohio Executive Agencies
http://www.ohiojunction.net/erc/email/emailguidelines.html

South Carolina
Electronic Mail Guidelines
http://www.state.sc.us/nis_itg/em_guidelines.html

Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Madison E-mail Policy and Best Practices
http://archives.library.wisc.edu/rm/arms/arms4.html

Wyoming
State of Wyoming Executive Branch Electronic Mail Policy
http://www.state.wy.us/governor/press_releases/execorder/1999/pre1999-4.html

University of Wyoming Draft Policy Guidelines for Managing Electronic Mail
http://ahc.uwyo.edu/documents/about/departments/uwarchives/email.pdf

Other
Wallace, D.A. Record keeping and Electronic Mail Policy: The State of Thought and the State of the Practice. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, September 3, 1998, Orlando, FL. Arlington, VA: Barry Associates; 1998:1-23.
http://www.mybestdocs.com/ (under guest authors)

Marlan Green, et al.  “Coming to TERM:  Designing the Texas Email Repository Model.”  D-Lib Magazine 8:9 September 2002. 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september02/galloway/09galloway.html

National LIbrary of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/47.html

Netherlands Testbed Project
http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/index.cfm?paginakeuze=185. 

McGill University's DigitalPermancence Project
http://www.mcgill.ca/files/archives/dpprotocols.pdf 

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Web Site Archiving

National Archives of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/web_records/intro.html

Charles R. McClure, J. Timothy Sprehe, and Kristen Eschenfelder
"Guidelines for Electronic Records Management on State and Federal Agency Websites"
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~cmcclure/#2000

Julien Masanes, “Towards Continuous Web Archiving:  First Results and an Agenda for the Future” D-Lib Magazine 8:12 December 2002.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/masanes/12masanes.html

McCluskey-Moore, N. "Untangling Web Content Management." Intranet Design Magazine. April 18, 2000.
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200004/im_04_18_00a.html

Wyoming Web site Retention Guidelines
http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/retain/website.htm

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Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org

Minnesota Record keeping Metadata Standard (Minnesota Office of Technology Standard IRM 20)
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/metadatastandard.html

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Metadata.
http://www.fgdc.gov/fgdc/fgdc.html
http://fgdc.er.usgs.gov/metadata/metadata.html

Minnesota Department of Administration, Office of Technology. Minnesota Enterprise Technical Architecture. 2002.
http://www.northstar.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/portal/mn/jsp/
content.do?subchannel=-536879593&id=-8484&agency=OT

National Archives of Australia. Record keeping Metadata Standard for Commonwealth Agencies. Version 1.0, 2001.
http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/control/rkms/summary.htm

Research Library Group-OCLC Report
Metadata Framwork to Support the Preseration of Digital Objects
http://www.rlg.org/longterm

UK GovTalk. Interoperability: Metadata
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemasstandards/metadata.asp

Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

XML.ORG
XML.ORG was formed an introduced in June 1999 by OASIS, the non-profit Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems, to minimize the overlap and duplication in XML languages and XML standard initiatives by providing public access to XML information and XML schemeas.
http://.xml.org

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Indiana
Standards & Recommendations, Indiana Geographic Information Council
http://www.state.in.us/ingisi/metadata/metadata_standard.html

Maine
Standards & Guidelines, Maine Office of GIS
http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us/standards/standards.asp

North Dakota
Standards, North Dakota Geographic Information Systems
http://www.state.nd.us/gis/mapsdata/metadata/

Wyoming
Wyoming Geographic Information Systems Directory        
http://www.gowyld.net/wyoming/gis.html

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