Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Presented: 29 November 2016 In this presentation, Anna Gray provided an overview of the Emergency Digitisation of at Risk Archives’ (EmDARA) project, including the project’s digitisation workflow and some of the project issues encountered. Accompanying presentation: EmDARA (PPT, 3MB)

Sorry it has been so long since our last Q&A post but we have honestly been super busy answering enquiries! People within the NSW public sector have been asking questions about lots of fascinating issues, relating to changing business frameworks and how recordkeeping should be used as a support to these. Here are some of the […]

As usual, Government Recordkeeping staff have been asked lots of interesting questions about digital information management and recordkeeping issues in March and April. Here is a sample of some of these questions and our responses.

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 […]

This post is part of a new series where we report on some key digital recordkeeping enquiries received each month and the responses given. We hope that this information can assist others in managing their digital recordkeeping challenges. If you have feedback on the advice we have given or if you have additional suggestions, we would love to […]

In May 2012 we posted a summary of what key digital recordkeeping enquiries we had received from NSW agencies in the month and what responses we gave. We thought that perhaps it might be helpful to others pondering the same issues. A number of people viewed this post, so we have decided to do a similar […]

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 […]

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.