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Byline: Tracey Caldwell.
The National Archives is to streamline access to its archived documents for information professionals and other users by implementing a content management system (CMS) to manage its 7,000-page website.
The National Archives publishes the latest declassified government documents under the Freedom of Information Act onto its website every month, previously without the aid of a CMS. Recent examples include Nazi propaganda efforts, Mick Jagger's complaint of police corruption and records of the Special Branch spying on George Orwell.
The 30-year standard closure period no longer determines access to government records; instead, information is assumed to be available from the start unless one of the exemptions of the Act applies.
The new system, supplied by RedDot ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Archives site upgraded for FoI.(National Archives to use a content...