Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Presented:  4 December 2018 NSW State Archives Government Recordkeeping Manager Andrew Pickles and Senior Communications Advisor Rosa Capel presented the results of the benchmarking research on how well people understand their responsibilities under the State Records Act 1998. Accompanying presentation: Benchmarking research findings (PPTX,  1 MB)  

Today is Right to Know Day and State Archives and Records NSW is proud to be a Right to Know 2017 Champion! To celebrate Right to Know Week 2017 we interviewed Elizabeth Tydd to discuss this year’s theme: ‘Right to Information: Open and accountable government and the media’s role.’ Ms Tydd is the NSW Information Commissioner and […]

Audio recorded: 20 September 2017 To celebrate Right to Know Week 2017 (25 September – 1 October) – we interviewed Elizabeth Tydd, NSW Information Commissioner and CEO of the Information and Privacy Commission, to discuss this year’s theme: ‘Right to Information: Open and accountable government and the media’s role.’ Transcript of the interview can be found here.

Presented: 29 March 2017 In this presentation, Janet Villata discussed the challenges and lessons learnt from developing an online induction for records and information management for the City of Sydney using gamification techniques. The City of Sydney is sharing the module under the Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. To view the module or obtain the source code please email develop@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au. […]

Today is Right to Know day and State Records NSW is proud to be a Right to Know 2016 Champion! One of the themes this year is Open Government in Action. Open government increases accountability and promotes citizen input to government service delivery and policy development.

I’ve previously blogged about the review of standards at State Records NSW which is happening this year. We have reviewed five of the records management standards currently in place for the NSW public sector and now propose to approve a new standard under the State Records Act 1998.  We are seeking your comments on the […]

  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 […]

This week the members of the EDRMS Implementers Discussion Group met for the first time to talk about their organisations’ experiences in implementing systems to support digital recordkeeping. This is a new group facilitated by State Records to promote the sharing and re-use of ideas, tools and approaches for implementing EDRMS (electronic document and records […]

Scientific data, research data, data retention, big data – just recently it seems like everyone is talking about data of one sort or another. Last week CBC News reported a fascinating tale of lost and inaccessible data: ‘The case of the missing data’. In it, a US scientist looking into heart disease tracked down some […]

As foreshadowed in , State Records has released an exposure draft of our guidance on the recordkeeping capabilities of SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010: recordkeeping considerations is available from the State Records website where you can also find information about how to provide comments. The deadline for comments is Friday 26 October 2012. While developing this […]