About the Federal Records Instance
Deployed June 2008
- Ingests, processes, and stores permanent electronic records from Federal agencies
- Supports online creation and approval of records schedules for records in all formats
- Supports the accessioning of records in all formats into NARA legal custody
- Enables agencies to send electronic records to NARA using the ERA Packaging Tool
- Currently used by NARA electronic records staff, appraisal and accessioning archivists, and staff from 16 Federal agencies participating in the ERA deployment pilot
- Contains 16.6 TB (as of September 2011) of Federal records, including both legacy holdings and new accessions