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Abstract:
This paper outlines the National Archives and Records (NARS) department’s policies and practices with regard to disaster planning and recovery for paper and electronic regards in the context of tension with its neighbour.
Target audience:
personnel in charge of archives' disaster planning, designing and policy-making
Overall purpose and significance of session:
The e-Government of Korea has been proved be the world-best since 2006 according to the Brown University Report on worldwide e-Government evaluation report. It is also notable that the North and South parts are in acute confrontation. In this situation, Mr. Dai-hyun Yoon, director of the Archives Management Department, National Archives and Records Service (NARS) of the Republic of Korea, would like to introduce how the NARS, define the types of disasters for paper and electronic records, how we gradually try to solve each type of disaster, how we might manage archival and records materials in wartime, and how we have built a counter-measure system to prevent disasters involving records in the e-Government environment.
Content description:
Introduction to the types and cases of disasters happening to paper and electronic records. - Gradual approaches to disaster prevention. Stages of prevention, reaction, and restoration - disaster planning according to the types of the records material. Traditional disaster planning for paper records, including water-washing and vacuum-freezing-dry. Cases of electronic records disaster-planning with regard to records continuum - best practices of the NARS for disaster-planning for paper and electronic records. Steps to build a systematic disaster-planning system for electronic records, strategy for scattering, storing, and preserving core records in the wartime.
I wish to extend a warm invitation to all archivists and information professionals to the 16th ICA Congress in Kuala Lumpur from 21- 27 July 2008.