Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Kate and I visited the Process and Records Services team at NSW Police headquarters recently. We were very impressed with a number of initiatives the team are undertaking and how they are reaching out to IT and the business. The main goals driving their projects include the desire to streamline business processes, reduce inefficiencies and […]

We receive many enquiries from NSW public offices about digitisation of records. People often search our website for information on this issue and our blog posts on digitisation are consistently popular. As a result, we have put together some draft guidance on both business process digitisation programs and back-capture digitisation projects. The Exposure Draft of this guidance, Managing digitisation […]

In February State Records released an Exposure Draft of its Managing digitisation programs and projects guidance. Two new case studies have now been added to this guidance.

We are pleased to announce the release of a new Exposure draft: Managing digitisation programs and projects

Can you believe that another year is almost over? Where has that gone? It has certainly been a busy one for Digital Recordkeeping at State Records.

Each year, State Records sends a newsletter to all NSW public sector Chief Executives. The newsletter, called ‘Future Proof,’  concisely brings key issues and challenges relating to digital recordkeeping to the attention of Chief Executives. The 2011 Future Proof newsletter was distributed to Chief Executives in late November.

One of the things recordkeeping professionals really struggle with in the digital environment is the management of disposal. In the paper world we would be called in when that storage room got too full or when a move was underway to clean up the pile of records and sort out their disposal or transfer. In […]

Are you undertaking a digitisation program or project? Would you like to see what others are doing in this area, how they have planned and managed their programs/projects, what they have achieved or the lessons they have learned along the way? Over the coming months, State Records will be providing some case studies on our website focusing on digitisation activities undertaken by […]

In financially unstable times we often need to justify why our organisations need to put money into records management. It does not produce immediate and visible results: there are no new clients, no income stream directly attributable to good recordkeeping.  And it costs money to implement. However, a sound records management program is like an insurance […]

“Information is a strategic asset and must be managed like other assets, such as people or capital.” So says the Global research firm Gartner. What we records and information managers have been saying for years!