Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

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 NSW public sector organisations. The case studies will include examples of both back capture projects (retrospective or project-based digitisation) and business process digitisation programs (ongoing, routine digitisation for business). When each case study is released it will be promoted through the Future Proof blog. The case studies will be linked to the digitisation guidelines when they are released in early 2012.

We are pleased to  announce that the first of these case studies is now available.

Teacher and students at Artarmon Public School NRS 15051

The first case study focuses on a pilot digitisation project established by staff at the Department of Education and Communities as part of their broader EDRMS project. The pilot involved the business process digitisation of the Department’s human resource management records.

State Records would like to thank the staff at DEC, particularly Timothy Lloyd, Matilda Hartwell, Abdalla Eissa, Grant Mortimer, Michael Cordeiro and Jodie Sale for their kind assistance and willingness to share this information.