Finally got round to reading Lord Dacre’s recently released Review of the 30 Year Rule, the legal arrangements under which central government records are transferred and made available to the public in the UK. This affects West Yorkshire Archive Service (and most other local authority record offices in the England and Wales) as an officially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘digital recordkeeping’
Electronic Local Government Records recognised as a “massive challenge” in 30 Year Rule Review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30 year rule, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, local government, NHS, PODs, UK on 17 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
E-mail Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged CERP, Costs, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, email, email preservation, low cost, North Carolina, small archives, Smithsonian, USA, XML on 10 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of interesting work going on at North Carolina State Archives – plenty to read on their electronic records page. One project I’d particularly like to highlight is their work on the preservation of e-mail. E-mail seems to be one of those types of electronic record about which there’s been lots and lots of discussion [...]
Public Record Office of Victoria (3)
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, tagged Australia, digital archives, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, Public Record Office of Victoria, VERS on 11 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Operating the Digital Archive As previously posted, the operation of the PROV Digital Archive is well integrated into the wider organisation, with the same team responsible for transfers of both paper and digital records. This team also creates the disposal authorities (more commonly known as ‘retention schedules’ in the UK – is the different terminology [...]
