Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

As those of you who regularly follow our Future Proof blog will know, we released an Exposure Draft of guidance called Managing digitisation programs and projects on our website in February 2012. We did not receive many comments on this guidance, but the comments we did receive were excellent. So thank you to those who took the time […]

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 […]

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 As a result, we have put together some draft guidance on both business process digitisation programs and back-capture digitisation projects.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

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 […]

I went to a digital preservation conference recently where the focus, to my surprise, was mainly on digitisation projects and programs. Many seem to believe that by turning paper records into digital images they are preserving them. But is this the case?

There are substantial benefits to be gained by digitising paper records. As a result, the number of organisations undertaking digitisation has increased dramatically in recent years. However, if you want to introduce digitisation projects or programs you need to be aware that there are also a variety of risks. Being aware of these risks can help […]

Cassie and I were invited to visit the Department of Services Technology and Administration (DSTA) recently to see their audio digitisation project. The Records Project Team were in the process of converting around 550 audio tapes to digital format.