statutory, regulatory, contractual, and business requirements. Consideration should be given to deterioration of media used for the storage of records. Storage and handling procedures should be implemented in accordance to the manufacturer’s recommendations. With electronic storage media, procedures to ensure the ability to access (both media and format readability) throughout the retention period should be included, to safeguard against loss due to future technology change. Section 7: Section 7 of the standard addresses the following; the necessity for an inventory of assets to be drawn up and maintained, acceptable use of assets, ownership of organizational assets, and information classification. Lanka Interoperability Framework (LIFe): This is an initiative undertaken by Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs in collaboration with Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) to establish recommendations for common data architecture and standards for data exchange for the Government of Sri Lanka. The Lanka Interoperability Framework is formulated to provide guidelines for different government information systems to standardize data architecture and data exchange. The scope of the first version of Lanka Interoperability Framework (LIFe) is limited to “Personal Data”. National Archives Act no 48 of 1973 A law to provide for the establishment of a Department of National Archives; to provide for the transfer of public records to the National Archives, to make better provision for the custody and preservation of public archives and public records. NEA - Guidelines on Standards Nationwide Enterprise Architecture (NEA) addresses the underlying technologies that are required in the implementation of ICT systems in an organization (e.g. Single Agency, Cross-agencies or Nationwide). It covers the Data Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology Architecture which all technology components such as network infrastructure, computing platforms, operating 23