Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom have defined digital continuity as: “establishing an ability to access and use digital information for as long as organisations need to, over however long the timescales are required, and through organisational, business and technology changes.” TNA also makes the point with this definition that: “It (digital continuity) […]

Digital information is easy to create, share and use and is today a vital business resource, critical for business activity and efficient operations. Digital information however is very easy to lose and this can become a very costly problem for your organisation to manage and to deal with into the future.

As anyone who works in recordkeeping knows, government records are inextricably bound up with the ebb and flow of administrative and  political change. This is no less true in the digital environment, a recent case in point being the departure of the former Premier, Nathan Rees, who was  removed by the Labor caucus and replaced […]

At the Records Managers Forum on March 2, Michael McMullan from Housing NSW spoke about the project he has been running to roll digital recordkeeping out across the organisation.

Up until last year, the NSW Fire Brigades had a records management system that had been in use for over ten years. photo credit: pqs As a very large organisation with over 4000 staff spread across the State and as an organisation that performs a high risk and critically important role, Fire Brigades had a […]

It was interesting to note this week that according to Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm, organisations will increasingly need to recruit staff with a mix of IT and information management, recordkeeping and archives skills in order to cope with the need for trustworthy and reliable business information amongst huge volumes of digital information, […]

We are in regular contact with lots of NSW public sector organisations, many of whom are demonstrating really clever thinking on meeting some of the big challenges of digital recordkeeping, like  how to manage records disposal in the digital world or add recordkeeping functionality to business systems. We hope to share lots of case studies […]

The Sydney Morning Herald, on page 1 of its December 5-6 2009 edition, ran a story called ‘Climate email mess hits Australia’. The story provides further detail from climate change records hacked from East Anglia University in the UK.

Well it’s been a busy year for us here at State Records as I’m sure it has been for everyone in the NSW government working in records and information management.

WePreserve have announced the third Team Digital Preservation adventure, Team Digital Preservation and the Deadly Cryptic Conundrum