Digital preservation cannot be left for the archivists alone; it requires active involvement from all responsible parties within the record lifecycle. With a steady increase in born digital records across the Queensland Government, alongside an ever-changing digital landscape, more is now required from agencies to successfully maintain this material beyond the limits of technological failure or change. As Queensland State Archives (QSA) prepares to roll out its Digital Archive, we recognise that this challenge is not just reserved for permanent value records (which make up only a small percentage of public records), but also those records that need to be retained by agencies for the medium to long term. This raises the question: do we need to incorporate digital preservation into current records management processes to provide complete, reliable, and accessible information throughout government?

As QSA actively engage with the wider Queensland Government to elicit a better understanding of the ecosystem at play for born digital records, we are not only preparing agencies for how they can utilise the Digital Archive, but we are also identifying how we bring digital preservation directly to them for their own business needs.

Digital Preservation as a Partnership | Presented By Jonathan Knox

Speakers

Jonathan Knox