The following article was front page on a recent MX newspaper (the freebie one handed out at train stations each evening in Melbourne and Sydney).

"People today have thousands of photos they don't organise or archive and in the end don't use because t

Archiving in the Digital Era

Hi All,

I wondered if I could get a feel for how others in smaller organisations, educational or otherwise, might be handling the distinction between their archival holdings and their record management practices.  Particularly as we march into the dig

I have not had a proper chance to play with my new digitisation equipment as yet, even though I have had it for about 3 months now. So, this week Alison (the office organiser) and I

Order to cut cost of annual reports

http://nsw.psnews.com.au/Page_NSWpsn3341.html

This article in the Public Service News [PS News] (4 September 2013) raises a few questions:

a) Will the two printed copies submitted to the relevant minister definitely e

http://rhizomedigital.com.au/why-digitise/

There are a few resources out in the interwebs that promote digitisation of records and other materials held in collections. The urge to digitise is not just exclusive to archival institutions who hold stat

Further to my last post, about the cost and scale of digital backup, etc, being either itty bitty or enterprise level - colleagues from other fora provided links to some different providers with interesting services.

Links:

1TB for $10 per month, trick

Tomorrow is International Day for Protection of Children.

At the Digital Mandate conference in Canberra yesterday, David Fricker (Director General of National Archives of Australia) and other speakers, eloquently put the case for Digital Transition. D

Twitter has been abuzz with digital humanities (aka DH) discussions over the last week as the Modern Language Association (#mla11) and the American Historical Association (#aha2011) held their annual meetings. Amongst interesting debates on the futur