4: Flagship Initiative
Develop online services to meet our 21st-Century needs. Other Information:
Openness at the National Archives is fundamentally about the vital role records play in our democracy. The ability of people
to examine the actions of their government is an inherent part of a democracy. In today's digital world, the public's expectations
for what they can see and do online continue to increase as new tools and technology are launched very day. The National Archives
must make our holdings, the permanently held records of the entire Federal Government, easily findable online. And we must
do more. We must engage our online users by developing communications through new media tools in order to facilitate the use
and understanding of the records we provide. Our flagship initiative is intended to encourage online user participation in
the redesign of our website, in the description of our holdings, in the prioritization of our digitization efforts, and in
developing our social media strategy as a whole. With the efforts outlined in our flagship initiative, we intend to move the
National Archives toward increased online participation and collaboration with the public by doing the following: 1. Develop
a social media strategy that lays out how we will accomplish our mission by participating with our online users more effectively.
This includes developing our current catalog into a social catalog that allows our users to contribute information about our
holdings. 2. Develop streamlined search capabilities for our online holdings that will unlock online records from previously
stove-piped systems. 3. Redesign Archives.gov to be more user-focused. 4. Approach digitization strategically as well as transparently
with the ultimate goal of providing greater access to our holdings online. We look forward to your feedback and ideas on how
to best achieve our goals. Our plans for accomplishing these goals are still developing, and will be enhanced by your suggestions.
We welcome your thoughts on our projects on our Open Government Idea Forum (http://www.naraopengov.ideascale.com) or on the
NARAtions blog (http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/), as well e-mail at opengov@nara.gov.
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