Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Our friend Stephen Bedford at the Department of Finance and Services very kindly agreed to share a document he has been working in that looks at some of the factors that need to be considered when you are working out how best to implement an EDRMS – in particular, relating to the tricky issue of […]

(With apologies to Star Trek) Our last post was the exciting announcement that State Records had finally secured the resources to start on a project to develop and implement a digital State archives. But it’s probably hard, at this very early stage, to really understand what that will mean in reality. So we thought it […]

In 2011 State Records will commence the implementation of a digital archives solution capable of accepting, preserving and making available born digital records of the NSW government as State archives.

L-R: Cassie Findlay, Kate Cumming, Janet Knight and Richard Lehane We’ve had an exceptionally busy year in the Future Proof team with lots of highlights, and we just spent the morning planning what we will be focusing on in 2011.  We hope to bring you: more case studies from digital recordkeeping implementations in a range […]

No man (or woman) is an island and the Future Proof team is certainly no exception. If we are going to develop tools and guidance that will help NSW government to build better digital recordkeeping systems and strategies, we need to make sure that we understand the needs of the sector. To that end we […]

Today the Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI) issued a media release regarding a new statement on managing the recordkeeping risks associated with the adoption of cloud computing solutions. State Records is a member of ADRI and was the lead agency on the development of this statement. 

Attention ICT professionals! Are you aware that, in an average government organisation, over 30% of the digital information generated needs to be kept in an accessible and useable form for more than 10 years, and approximately 10% of the digital information needs to be kept accessible and useable indefinitely? What strategies does your organisation have […]

Guest post by Stephen Bedford, Department of Services Technology and Administration DSTA have developed MS Office templates for common business formats (such as memos, faxes etc)  which automatically captures a sensible file save as name based on document content. It takes information from bookmarked fields, processes it, and suggests a filename, and also saves metadata […]

We know from speaking with many different public offices that addressing the recordkeeping risks associated with business systems is a major challenge for the NSW government. That is why we have developed a half day workshop called ‘Managing  recordkeeping risk in business systems’.

June 9 is International Archives Day. Established by the International Council on Archives as a way to draw attention to the importance of archives and recordkeeping in society, International Archives Day is being marked today by National, State and other archival institutions all over the world.