Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Last year State Records published guidance on the recordkeeping capabilities of SharePoint 2010. This guidance describes recordkeeping features and functionality that can be enabled or configured in SharePoint, and identifies where additional configuration and/or add-on software are needed to meet particular recordkeeping requirements. We have started to receive enquiries about the recordkeeping capabilities of SharePoint […]

Last month, Kate Cumming and I met with Melissa Ratkun, Claude Wetsteyn and Anita Franjieh from Bankstown City Council to talk about Council’s SharePoint pilot project and see a demo of some of the functionality implemented. In 2012, Council ran a pilot project to test whether SharePoint 2010 could meet Council’s document and records management […]

During the final week of DAM2012, Richard Lehane talked about State Records’ Open Data Project and the development of a web API to State Records’ catalogue, Archives Investigator. The API won a Mander Jones Award for the best finding aid to an archival collection held by an Australian institution or about Australia. The fourth and […]

After two wonderful weeks of digital awareness raising, we began the third week of DAM2012 with an update on State Records’ Digital Archive. Cassie Findlay, the Project Manager for the digital archives project, talked about the progress that the team has made so far as well as some of the pilot migration projects currently underway. […]

Week 2 of DAM2012 started with a challenging and inspiring presentation by Kate Cumming on the issues that are threatening our ability to maintain an archival record of contemporary society. In this presentation, first delivered at the ICA Congress in Brisbane, Kate described some of the threats to archives in current recordkeeping environments. After making […]

Last year we blogged about our Digital Awareness Month initiative. Digital Awareness Month (aka DAM) is an internal professional development program aimed at raising State Records employees’ awareness, knowledge and skills in the area of digital recordkeeping. Each year during DAM we promote various issues and exciting new developments in this area through a series […]

As foreshadowed in , State Records has released an exposure draft of our guidance on the recordkeeping capabilities of SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: recordkeeping considerations is available from the State Records website where you can also find information about how to provide comments. The deadline for comments is Friday 26 October 2012. While developing this […]

photo credit: woodleywonderworks A recent UK survey found that 45% of surveyed SharePoint users have copied sensitive or confidential documents from SharePoint to their local PC or a USB Key, or have emailed them to third parties. Of these, 98% had done so because they needed to work on a document at home or to […]