Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

photo credit: nothakus In a few days time, on 30 June, it will become a mandatory requirement under the Standard on digital recordkeeping (see Resources section above) that each government organisation must ‘define the digital State records that it will make and keep’ for all of its high risk business processes (requirement 1.1). Our recent […]

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 […]

Removable media, including optical disks (DVDs, CDs), memory cards and USB flash drives, are commonly used for offline storage or for moving data so it can be accessed away from the office. While there are obvious benefits in using removable media, there are also a range of risks.

Today the Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI) issued a media release regarding a new statement on managing the recordkeeping risks associated with the adoption of cloud computing solutions. State Records is a member of ADRI and was the lead agency on the development of this statement. 

We know from speaking with many different public offices that addressing the recordkeeping risks associated with business systems is a major challenge for the NSW government. That is why we have developed a half day workshop called ‘Managing  recordkeeping risk in business systems’.

The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom have defined digital continuity as: “establishing an ability to access and use digital information for as long as organisations need to, over however long the timescales are required, and through organisational, business and technology changes.” TNA also makes the point with this definition that: “It (digital continuity) […]

It was interesting to note this week that according to Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm, organisations will increasingly need to recruit staff with a mix of IT and information management, recordkeeping and archives skills in order to cope with the need for trustworthy and reliable business information amongst huge volumes of digital information, […]

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.