preservation (30)

 

National Archives report shows public sector embracing digital record keeping

Michael Gorey 
  • Michael Gorey

Federal agencies are embracing digital records management and upgrading storage systems while helping to achieve significant overall sav

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Digital 'Doomsday' vault for data to neighbour seed vault on Svalbard Island, Norway

Posted yesterday at 12:34pm

Historically import

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Quoting from https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/fannys-memory-world

FANNY’S MEMORY OF THE WORLD
COCHRANE SMITH ACKNOWLEDGED BY UNESCO
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BY ROD BUTLER

Image of Fanny Cochrane Smith and Horace Watson courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

On 9 February

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Quoting from https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/glass-cinema-slides-2

PRESERVING GLASS SLIDES: PART 2
PART TWO: EXAMINATION AND CONDITION
BY SHINGO ISHIKAWA AND DARREN WEINERT
In 2005 the NFSA embarked on an ambitious project to digitally preserve some 10,

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Quoting from https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-16-043/library-of-congress-acquires-96-high-profile-courtroom-drawings/2016-02-26/

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Library of Congress Acquires 96 High-Profile Courtroom Drawings

Press Contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639
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World-class leatherworker Doug Kite donates collection to Museum of Victoria

Updated Sat at 10:54am

For more than 30 years, 92-year-old Doug Kite has practise

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ABC The Mix Pub Chat segment has a discussion between Michael Loebenstein, CEO of the National Film and Sound Archives  and David Fricker, Director-General, National Archives of Australia with the program host James Valentine regarding the collectio

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National Archives of Australia staff off to Cuba to restore historic documents

May 19 2016

Most travel packing includes perhaps a little sunscreen or the latest novel, but for two Canberra conservators, their luggage to Cuba will contain far more inter

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Quoting from http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/research/survey-audiovisual-archiving-papua-new-guinea/

Surveying the state of audiovisual archiving in Papua New Guinea

Mick Newnham, Senior Researcher

One of the directions the NFSA is actively pursuing

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