Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

We were delighted to learn recently that the Information Services Team at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office won an Award for Innovation at the Department’s Annual Achievement Awards. In 2011, Maria Kepreotes and her Information Services team, in conjunction with IT and the Training units and technical developer KRECS, developed an email integration tool, called […]

June 9 is International Archives Day and together with our blog sisters at Archives Outside, Future Proof is celebrating! Go and check out Archives Outside’s Archives are Awesome post while here at Future Proof we are celebrating all things recordkeeping. Here are our top 5 reasons why we think recordkeeping is awesome. Number 1: Good […]

Government Recordkeeping staff at State Records spend a lot of time answering enquiries from NSW public sector organisations on a range of digital recordkeeping issues. We thought it might be valuable to highlight, in monthly blog posts, a few of the key enquiries and how we answered them. Perhaps you may have the same questions […]

Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malisia/5091325424/ In March and April Janet Knight and I have run two sessions of State Records’ free half-day workshop, Managing recordkeeping risk in business systems. At both sessions we have had a full house of really engaged and interested participants. Thanks to their enthusiasm and willingness to share expertise and experience, Janet and I have learned as much as hopefully […]

photo credit: Rusty Clark Organisations run on information. Without good digital business information, organisations will be hampered by radically increased business risks, liabilities and inefficiencies. In even the most general scenarios, managing your digital business information so that it is accurate, accessible and accountable is a challenge. But seeking to manage it successfully through any […]

photo credit: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) The compliance timetable supporting the Standard on digital recordkeeping says that, in order to manage your digital records effectively, you should focus your time and resources on identifying and improving the systems that support the high risk business processes in your organisation. In this post we will look at some […]

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.

photo credit: cwwycoff1 We have had recent meetings with some government agencies who are implementing a large cloud-based system. We had some good discussions and most of them focussed on developing options for aligning business requirements (and sound information management) with the cloud infrastructure. We all sorted out a few problems, identified some new ones and […]

photo credit: Cappellmeister Last month I ran a workshop at the Local Government Web Network (http://lgwebnetwork.org/) conference on recordkeeping and web 2.0. This is always a really great conference: beautifully organised, diverse and interesting presentations and an excellent group of engaged participants. At the workshop there was a whole host of interesting discussion, so here […]

photo credit: verlaciudad Last week State Records ran a half day workshop, Managing recordkeeping risk in business systems. We had a fantastic group of participants who really engaged with the topic and brought a whole range of valuable experience to the discussion. The workshop was developed to support implementation of State Records’s Standard on digital […]