I am sending this message to Chief Information Officers also. I urge you to work with your CIO to ensure that your agency's public web sites are included in the snapshot. This immediate action does not address the larger and long-term records management issues relating to agency web sites that you and NARA face. Agencies are using the web more and doing more of their business on the web than ever before. Web sites include different types of records that are used in different ways, and document different agency activities of varying significance.
Some web content parallels traditional paper records.
In fact some agencies use the web to disseminate policy information, but publicize the fact that the authentic records of policy are maintained on paper. We will be working with agencies on the first phase of this guidance in the next few weeks. We will meet with records officers shortly to go over what they need to see in the guidance. Several agencies have submitted records schedules for their web sites and have received dispositions for them. NARA has also provided training and briefings on records management issues relating to web records, and is happy to do so upon request.