Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Our wonderful colleague Dr Kate Cumming is moving on to new adventures. It’s quite a blow for State Records, and especially for the Government Recordkeeping team. Kate started at State Records in 1999, after a period working for the National Archives of Australia. As a member of the then Electronic Recordkeeping team, she worked on […]

A little while ago we were asked by another government agency interested in blogging to explain how the Future Proof blog fits in with State Records’ business objectives, and to outline some of the outcomes we think Future Proof achieves. To us, this form of social media engagement has been really critical in helping State Records to achieve […]

At State Records NSW we have redeveloped our Recordkeeping in the NSW public sector pages on our main State Records website. We really hope this redevelopment helps to make our extensive resources about records and information management much more accessible, and accessible to a very broad audience. So what changes have we made? To improve its accessibility, we did […]

This week is International Customer Service Week (7-11 October). Here in the Government Recordkeeping team at State Records we are celebrating this week by reflecting on how we support our public sector customers, the tens of thousands of staff working with government information across the NSW Public Sector. And by always considering, of course, how […]

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 […]

  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 […]

Here are some of the interesting questions we were asked in January and February about a whole host of digital recordkeeping issues. If you have any feedback for us on our advice, please don’t hesitate to let us know. How can I apply metadata to social media records? We used the government’s online recruitment tool Taleo […]

As 2013 heats up, Emma and I have been looking over the 2012 Future Proof blog statistics to identify what topics were of particular interest to our Future Proof community. The Top 10 of Future Proof in 2012 is an interesting list and it is providing us with really useful input into our workplanning for the […]

Here are some of the really interesting digital recordkeeping enquiries that the Government Recordkeeping section at State Records received in December. We are using a cloud-based business system but need to export key records out of it and back into corporate business systems. What do we do with the copies of records of these records that […]

During the final week of DAM2012, Richard Lehane talked about State Records’ Open Data Project and the development of a web API to State Records’ catalogue, Archives Investigator. The API won a Mander Jones Award for the best finding aid to an archival collection held by an Australian institution or about Australia. The fourth and […]