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New FAQs – Council Amalgamations and Checklist
FAQs: Council Amalgamations – managing records and information through transition and administrative change This FAQ provides some advice around recent questions State Records has received in relation...
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Digital Implementers Group – mashing six TRIM implementations into one funky...
We recently convened our regular hex-hebdomadal Digital Implementers Group meeting. Dr Ann Turner shared some fascinating insights into her experiences consolidating six distinct TRIM implementations...
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Trust no one? The truth is out there
Much has been made of privacy concerns around the 2016 Australian census. Unfairly or not, much of the early discourse[1] was centred on the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ intention to retain name...
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Exploring and visualising data
Data visualisation has the digital universe all mesmerised and here at State Records, we are always interested in learning what other agencies are doing on this space. The DX Lab at the State Library...
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Not enough monkeys, not enough typewriters! Why is digital disposal getting...
We revisited digital disposal at our recent Digital Implementers Group meeting. We were interested in how things had progressed since the topic was last discussed. Were the main drivers for digital...
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Guidance on cloud email implementation now available
In our previous blog posts “Thinking more about moving email to the cloud” and “Cloud email – what’s happening with the information?”, we explored the drivers and potential information management...
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We support your Right to Know!
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...
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Introducing our new Podcast page
We have been busy redesigning our Podcast page and we hope that with the new page, it will be easier to search and access the latest podcasts and accompanying presentation slides. Why change it? We...
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Game, set and match! – Gamifying records management eLearning
The Council of the City of Sydney’s new records management eLearning module shows us that learning about records management can be a rewarding experience. The module uses gamification techniques to...
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Cloud and the future of digital communities
I attended the GovDC Marketplace event held 15 September and I learnt a lot of things from listening to presentations, workshops and panel discussions about using cloud-based technologies from both the...
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Text messages are State records
Following recent media coverage on text messages and messaging services, we would like to remind NSW public offices that text messages created or received in the course of official business are State...
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Readying for Release – open data initiatives
In the same week, the Productivity Commission released a draft report on Data Availability and Use and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet released Australia’s first Open Government...
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The Magic Touch: balancing autonomy and automation
One of the persistent challenges of digital records management is the creation and capture of appropriate records of our business. In our current digital environment, records creation and capture is...
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You don’t gotta catch ’em all: managing text messages for business
We recently published new advice on managing text messages as records. It provides guidance on how you can capture text messages into your corporate recordkeeping system. It is, however, only half of...
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