But the era of the paper record is almost over

And so we need to be able to have a place to store those things where they're no longer trapped on the particular media on which they're originally stored or created. Websites, wiki's and blogs, Twitter feeds, all of these things are being used by federal agencies now to communicate with the public and they're creating federal records. The Electronic Records Archives, ERA, gives us a way to bring in the records, it gives us a place to store the records safely and preserve them.