Board meeting at the Department for Archives and Records Management, 24 November

On 24 November 2011, the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus held a board meeting to discuss the results of a complex inspection at the Belarusian Research Center of Electronic Records (BelNITsED) and the issues of the development by the state archives of the automated inventory system for records of the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus.

Having discussed the results of the inspection at BelNITseD, the Board accepted its work as satisfactory. The Center was noted for its active participation in conducting applied research in provision of long-term preservation and access to electronic records, the introduction and development of information technologies for access to traditional archival records etc.

On the second issue the Board noted that the administrative bodies of the State Archives Service and the state archives achieved a positive success in the development of the automated state inventory system. The state records inventory system has a three-layer structure and is run with the software program package “Fonds Catalogue. Version 5.0”, installed at the Department for Archives and Records Management and at the archives and records divisions in the regional executive committees, as well as the program package “Inventory. Version 4.1” installed in the state archives of the Republic of Belarus.

By the 1st January 2012, the database of the State Fonds Catalogue, the main information resource, will have been completed. The Belarusian Research Center of Electronic Records is currently developing a technology for presenting the State Fonds Catalogue in the Internet.