Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

When State Records started building a whole of government digital archive for New South Wales, we committed to publishing new software developed for the project as free and open source software. We rely heavily on software and web services shared freely by members of the digital preservation community, such as the PRONOM technical registry from the National Archives (UK) and Xena from the National […]

At the recent NSW Public Sphere event at Parliament House hosted by Penny Sharpe MLC, NSW government organisations including the NSW Police, the Department of Education and Training and NSW Transport and Infrastructure spoke about initiatives in their organisations that are taking advantage of new and popular web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, microblogging (Twitter), photo and document sharing sites and blogs.

Here at State Records we have heard from several agencies who have invested in the development of a ‘bridge’ from their Web Content Management System to their EDRMS, in order to capture website records. In some cases the CMS is an open source solution such as Plone or MySpace. We would love to hear from you […]