Records Mgmt & Archiving

A German e-Government project, ArchiSafe, has developed a set of principles for the long-term retention of electronically signed documents. This archive system was primarily developed for legally protected federal documents, which are kept in an XML exchange format for retention for at least thirty years. The pilot is now a fully functioning system. Details of the project are available [in German only] from the ArchiSafe Web site. Addition of electronic signatures to the documents is carried out by the use of the ArchiSig System, developed in 2003 by a collaborative team of German institutions.

http://www.archisafe.de/s/archisafe/index