Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

In 2011 State Records will commence the implementation of a digital archives solution capable of accepting, preserving and making available born digital records of the NSW government as State archives.

At a risk of being judged by posterity to have been either unrealistically overambitious, or quaintly conservative, here is my vision for how a NSW Digital Archive might look a decade from now:   An agency imports its new XML retention and disposal authority into its corporate records system. Triggers and retention periods are automatically calculated. Years later the corporate records […]

June 9 is International Archives Day. Established by the International Council on Archives as a way to draw attention to the importance of archives and recordkeeping in society, International Archives Day is being marked today by National, State and other archival institutions all over the world.

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 […]

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

When building an archive for digital records, there are many things that you need to consider. Everything from where will your cabling go, to what types of racks, how many servers are needed, what will the flooring be and so forth.