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Agencies are still struggling to identify the best model for records archiving social media. Even as the National Archives and Records Administration continues to provide guidance, some in the gov 2.0 space suggest a collaborative, federal strategy would be more effective than agency-by-agency compliance.
One possible solution would be a standard system of records management across all agencies, suggests Jack Holt, senior strategist for emerging media at the Defense Department. Library of Congress or NARA could assist agencies in setting standard taxonomies with which to tag content–whether that content is a Word document, video, tweet or Facebook post.
“Along with that you could still add your folksonomies. You could still add whatever is relevant to you, your project, your organization, but the federal archives would look at [it and say,] ‘this is what’s relevant to us,'” explains Holt. Read more…