Digital Archiving Discussion Paper: Informing an Approach to the Long Term Management and Preservation of Digital Government Records

Digital Archiving Discussion Paper: Informing an Approach to the Long Term Management and Preservation of Digital Government Records

Archives

The Queensland State Archive’s “Digital Archiving Discussion Paper: Informing an Approach to the Long Term Management and Preservation of Digital Government Records” was created to broaden public awareness of the digital content management needs of the Australian government, while seeking to inform the QSA’s archival practices by seeking out advice and commentary from data management professionals as official documents, and information requests shift from analog to digital. The discussion paper is divided into sections: an introduction to the need for digital archiving, the context of increasingly digital government work, an introduction to digital archiving, the scope of the QSA’s endeavor, key issues and methods of preservation and data transference, the consequences of ignoring the problem, possible solutions, and the definition and establishment of a program management office within the QSA that will guide the development and maintenance of digital archive practices, and systems.

Queensland State Archives

2011

Foley, Christopher

Discussion Paper

Queensland State Archives. “Digital Archiving Discussion Paper: Informing an Approach to the Long Term Management and Preservation of Digital Government Records.” The State of Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation, and the Arts, 2010. Web.