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Nicole,
Thanks for your response. I actually saw this on NARA's site and I probably should have mentioned it in my original post.
I just can't believe that NARA still accepts text-based data as the ONLY format for database transfers. How are they managing non-text data, such as binary files and images, that are stored in databases? I think (or at least, I hope) they are addressing this in the ERM project, but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.
Anybody know anything more?
Thanks, again.
Don
> Records shall be in a format that is not dependent on specific hardware
> or software, written in ASCII or EBCDIC with all extraneous control
> characters removed (except record length indicators for variable length
> records, marks delimiting a data element, field, record or file, or
> Standard Generalized Markup Language tags). Records should not be
> compressed unless NARA has approved the transfer in the compressed form
> in advance.
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> Data files and databases shall be transferred as flat files or as
> rectangular tables, that is, as two-dimensional arrays, lists or tables.
> All records in a database or tuples in a relational database should have
> the same logical format. Each data element within a record should
> contain only one data value. A record should not contain nested
> repeating groups of data items.
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