Presentation at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 14 September 2007 concerning research collaborations between the Electronic Records Archives Research Program and the SLAC Archives and History Center

1. An Overview of the ERA Program and the Challenges of Electronic Records Mark Conrad Archives Specialist

4. Anticipated Incoming Permanent Electronic Records Collections within the next 15 years 347 131 35.8 25.8 19.0 14.1 10.6 7.8 5.5 3.6 Projected Accumulated NARA Holdings in petabytes (1 PB = 1,024 TB) 2022 2018 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Year

5. How NARA Responded The ERA Vision ERA will be a comprehensive, systematic, and dynamic means of preserving and providing continuing access to any type of electronic record free from dependence on any specific hardware or software, created anywhere in the Federal Government.

9. National Coordination Office for Networking Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD)

13. FY 2007 NITRD Supplement to the President's Budget See http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/2007supplement/

18. Some of Our Research Partners San Diego Supercomputer Center NIST … and many other Federal Agencies and their Records Officers National Science Foundation Global Grid Forum National Computational Science Alliance Army Research Laboratory National Agricultural Library

19. Your Contact in the ERA Program Management Office Mark Conrad [email_address] ERA Communications (301) 837-0740 [email_address] The ERA Website is http://www.archives.gov/era