ELECTRONIC RECORDS STORAGE: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
The article describes foreign experience in the field of ensuring long-term storage of electronic records, including those originally created in electronic form and digitized. The experience of the USA and a number of European countries on the creation and implementation of projects providing the storage of electronic records is presented in the article. Among such projects are the Strategic plan of the US National Archives, common-European E-ARK (European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation), Estonian computing program (Universal Archiving Mоdule), Finland’s Sähke, Holland’s OAIS (Open Archival Information System), VITAM (Valeurs Immatérielles Transférées aux Archives pour Mémoire) from France and many others. Their study allows us to identify general trends in the development of this field of activity. They include: the need to determine the requirements for the archival storage of records at the development stage of information systems for the creation of electronic records, the formation of specialized information systems (electronic archives) at the state level, the need to transfer the metadata of electronic records for the storage in the archive. At the same time, it should be mentioned that all the proposed solutions do not imply permanent storage, the perpetual storage of electronic records.