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The end of paper, the leveraging of PDF

October 27, 2017
Writing in Government Computing News, PDF Executive Director Duff Johnson highlights NARA’s recently-published draft strategic plan and its stated objective of eliminating paper as a medium for records by the end of 2022. He points out that PDF is not just the only obvious choice for a document records-keeping medium, but it’s almost inevitable. Even so, he argues, agencies and other organizations have a long way to go before they are fully leveraging the world’s de facto electronic document for … Read more
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Writing in Government Computing News, PDF Executive Director Duff Johnson highlights NARA's recently-published draft strategic plan and its stated objective of eliminating paper as a medium for records by the end of 2022. He points out that PDF is not just the only obvious choice for a document records-keeping medium, but it's almost inevitable.

Even so, he argues, agencies and other organizations have a long way to go before they are fully leveraging the world's de facto electronic document format.

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