Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Transformative change – Digital transformation: an archivist’s journey from a paper world into the digital world (a personal story from Glen Humphries Project Officer – Digital State Archives – State Archives and Records NSW). My career as an information management professional began accidentally and by chance. After twenty years of working in various jobs (mostly in […]

We’ve had quite a few enquiries on information systems – from systems upgrades to migration, and also risks around decommissioning of legacy systems. Q1. Why do we need to keep on migrating metadata of old records that have been destroyed or missing? A: There is a need to retain the metadata of old records, regardless […]

Last year, we published a case study outlining the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s (DPC) Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) Program strategy, including their electronic approvals (eApprovals) workflow implementation. Since then, DPC had enquiries from other agencies about their strategy and their successes, and one of those enquiries led to the collaboration between DPC and the Public […]

The presentations and podcasts from the Records Managers Forum held 29th November are now available on Future Proof.  The Forum promotes communication between NSW public sector records managers and provides an opportunity to exchange news and discuss issues of current concern. The Records Managers Forum’s theme was digital excellence and transforming NSW government and included […]

We have been busy redesigning our Podcast page and we hope that with the new page, it will be easier to search and access the latest podcasts and accompanying presentation slides. Why change it? We have noticed that our Podcasts page has been getting long and growing, and it is starting to get unwieldy to […]

Today is Right to Know day and State Records NSW is proud to be a Right to Know 2016 Champion! One of the themes this year is Open Government in Action. Open government increases accountability and promotes citizen input to government service delivery and policy development.

Data visualisation has the digital universe all mesmerised and here at State Records, we are always interested in learning what other agencies are doing on this space. The DX Lab at the State Library of NSW has already started experimenting on visualising its data. They have produced some amazing data visualisation projects which showcase the […]

Much has been made of privacy concerns around the 2016 Australian census. Unfairly or not, much of the early discourse[1] was centred on the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ intention to retain name and address information for four years. Many commentators have shared their views on whether they trust the government on how they will use […]

During the month of December we are blogging on the topic of decommissioning. Decommissioning legacy systems may result in the migration of data to new systems. We have published some advice on effectively managing the migration of records, which outlines some important things to consider when migrating records and information between systems. This advice notes […]

Recently State Records staff from the Government Recordkeeping, Digital Archives and Archives Control and Management sections attended a workshop on arranging and describing archives run by the Australian Society of Archivists. The course was focused around the new challenges posed by digital environments, both in the creation of records digitally and in the way in […]