Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

On 30 August State Records held another very successful Open Day at our Western Sydney Records Centre. In amongst all the fantastic talks, tours, treasures and trucks, Government Recordkeeping staff gave advice on some of the real world challenges that today’s digital business environment creates for good recordkeeping. We looked at what State Records is doing […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davejackson/4876222979/ Talking to government organisations that are moving some of their operations to the cloud, you discover that many are doing excellent assessments to combat a lot of the ICT risks associated with moves to the cloud, such as examining security, down time, back up and restoration and performance related issues. Government organisations are also actively considering the requirements […]

HP announced yesterday that in September it will release its new HP Records Manager 8.0 product. This product represents a merger of HP’s three existing records management products: HP TRIM Autonomy Records Manager and Meridio Records Manager. photo by: IntelFreePress

We are keeping too much information. The growing costs of information storage and management are mounting to the extent that very soon they will become unsustainable.  Unless proactive action is taken, the data bubble is going to burst and key information will be lost when it does. To date, however, the belief that storage is […]

Under the requirements of the State Records Act, the answer is none. The State Records Act says nothing about what formats you should use to make and keep your records. Its requirements just state that: you need to make and keep the evidence and the information you need to support your business operations, and you […]

Lots of juicy questions were fired at Government Recordkeeping staff at State Records in May and June. Here is a sample:

  Future Proof’s very first post, New IAMS contract can save you money, was published five years ago today. Happy birthday Future Proof! Looking back, the overarching themes that emerge through Future Proof’s 164 posts are that: information management is a business-critical task information management is an incredibly complex task effective information management needs coordination […]

We are continuing with our exploration of effective email management here on Future Proof. Two excellent and thought-provoking publications have come out of North America in the last few weeks. The first is a Bulletin from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in the US that is calling for comment on NARA’s proposed ‘Capstone’ approach to […]

In recent weeks we have been sharing our current thoughts about email management but in this post we want to go back in time! Way back in 2008, State Records developed some advice on email management. We have reproduced this advice below and we would love to receive your feedback on it. Which of our […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/6060432934/in/set-72157627289617985 Sunday June 9 is International Archives Day. Happy Archives Day everyone!