21.   Who is responsible for the electronic records?

22.   But because the opportunities of the electronic records are far richer than the paper records the electronic environment will require answers to even more questions.

23.   It is in informed co-operation with the last group, computing professionals, that the key to successful management of electronic records lies.

24.   Are there any good books on managing electronic records?

25.   Such record-keeping requirements will obviously mean that the electronic records need to be continuously maintained in a readable format for the relevant period from creation.

26.   The Recommendation calls on Member States to introduce rules for the admissibility of electronic records and limit requirements for the storage of records to a maximum of ten years.

27.   Quite rightly strategies to cope with the problems of electronic records are being implemented from the top down, with the various national archives taken a leading role.

28.   Yet in the case of electronic records the details of provenance are all too quickly lost following the process of generation.

29.   Local archives also need the support of larger institutions if they are to provide the necessary technical facilities demanded by the storage of electronic records.

30.   Also, Piedmont Medical Center, an anchor hospital of the Promina Health System, is building electronic records that can follow patients from the cradle to the grave.