CA Unless organizations find a means to preserve e-records, the long-term memory of modern institutions will be at great risk. As society now moves from written records to virtual documents, archivists are offering their traditional understanding of the structure and context of recorded evidence as protection against the widespread amnesia now threatening our electronic world.
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<P1> For electronic media, the content, structure and context of the record change significantly from that of the paper world. The only approximate match with paper is the content element, where the letters and numbers look much the same on the computer screen as on paper. But the structure and especially the context of electronic records are not apparent when retrieved from the text only. (p.4)
