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Posts Tagged ‘Digital Preservation’

State Records Digital Archives project featured in IT News March 22, 2012 No Comments

The Digital Archives project was profiled in an article published yesterday on IT News: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/294188,nsw-govt-to-open-source-digital-archives-software.aspx. It’s a great piece, giving extensive coverage to digital preservation issues, the scope of the Digital Archives project, the benefits of an ‘open source’ approach,  metadata, search, and (one of our bugbears) making it clear that there is a difference […]

State Records Digital Archives Project – Media Release from Logicalis March 19, 2012 No Comments

Logicalis, the company selected in January 2012 based on a Request for Proposal process to design, procure and implement the ICT infrastructure for State Records NSW’s Digital Archives project, has published a media release about the project. Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayhem/2939259129/

Tender Awarded for Design and Development of the Digital Archives ICT Platform February 14, 2012 2 Comments

On 17 November 2011 State Records NSW released a Request for Proposal (RFP) to procure supply of goods and specialist services for the design, procurement and implementation of an integrated ICT solution which will form the ICT platform for its Digital Archives project. The due date for submission of proposals was 12 January 2012. After […]

System migrations to archives (a research paper from the digital archives team) January 18, 2012 10 Comments

Executive Summary This research paper discusses three problems with using the term transfer to describe the processes that precede ingest into the digital archives and recommends instead the adoption of a project-based, system migration approach.

Wrapped in plastic.. a digital archives project update December 2, 2011 1 Comment

State Records’ digital archives project has been underway for 6 months now, so before we all collapse for the Christmas break, thought it might be a good time to let you know how we’re travelling. 1. We’re developing systems to support digital continuity partnerships We see the protection, preservation and accessibility of digital records of […]

What we reckon about keeping digital archives: High level principles guiding our approach September 30, 2011 No Comments

Over the last couple of months in the new(ish) digital archives project we have been researching, talking to people and thinking quite a lot about the principles that should guide our approach to keeping NSW’s digital State archives. While State Records’ broader Policy on digital records preservation (2007) is still extremely sound and sets up […]

Digitisation does not equal digital preservation! August 10, 2011 3 Comments

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?

The ethics of access June 8, 2011 2 Comments

American archivist Elena S Danielson has written a really interesting book called The Ethical Archivist (see description at http://goo.gl/xNRgU). In amongst a range of other fascinating ethical discussions, Danielson asks some probing questions about archival ethics in the digital age. Danielson says that a key collective aim of archival institutions is to ‘cultivate trusted archives based […]

Here today… April 19, 2011 No Comments

Google is closing its Google Videos site and binning your old movies. The search giant, which also owns YouTube, won’t keep the videos that have been uploaded to the site. – Rich Trenholm ‘Google Videos to nix your flix’ CNET News. Accessed April 18, 2011 8:32 AM PDT http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20054913-1.html#ixzz1JvrKCkks Perhaps we should actually stop to […]

It’s archives, Jim, but not as we know it March 4, 2011 No Comments

(With apologies to Star Trek) Our last post was the exciting announcement that State Records had finally secured the resources to start on a project to develop and implement a digital State archives. But it’s probably hard, at this very early stage, to really understand what that will mean in reality. So we thought it […]