Automated ingest of digital records from electronic records management systems

The amount of vital electronic records created at the agencies grows constantly, as does the need for efficient methods and tools which help to transfer records into trusted long-term repositories. This paper describes a tool called the Universal Archiving Module (UAM) which simplifies and automates the process of preparing records and their metadata for transfers into long-term repositories. Developed by the National Archives of Estonia the tool speeds up the transfer process by reusing already available records management metadata and by automating technical validation and normalisation processes.