Over the past few months, I've been working on the Perth ASA 2018 conference committee. I'm program chair, and when the convenors said they wanted a fresh new take on technology, archives and society, they little knew what they had unleashed.

To say t

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

Posted yesterday at 12:34pm

PHOTO: Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. ( Photo credit: Global Crop Diversity Trust.)

 

Historically import

Quoting from http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/527/news/agencies-urged-to-appoint-data-officers?utm_source=aps527&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps

Agencies urged to appoint data officers

The National Archives of Australia (NAA)

Quoting from Edition Number 493f.  Updated Friday 04 March 2016.

http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/493/news/digital-record-keeping-in-red-zone?utm_source=aps493&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps

Digital record keeping in ‘red

Quoting from Edition Number 4271, Updated Friday, 19 September 2014

Museums urged to go digital

The CSIRO has warned that Australian museums must innovate or risk becoming "digital dinosaurs".

Digital innovation in the sector is "inconsistent and isolat

Quoting from the PS News Edition Number 403f. Updated Friday, 04 April 2014 http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn403f2.html?utm_source=psn403f&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news2&utm_campaign=newsletter_Friday

Guarding privacy in the digital era

The Austra

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