Digitisation guidance - what's current and what's happening?
We know that public offices and local authorities want the ability to manage information and records digitally instead of in paper (or other) form for various reasons. Digitisation enables this....
View ArticleAn update on Archives New Zealand’s services after the earthquake.
The Archives Regional Offices in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin are open today (Wednesday) but we are still working to get our Wellington building open for the public. If a public office has an...
View ArticleArchives NZ precautionary evacuation
Due to earthquake related damage all people have been evacuated from our Archives New Zealand Building at 10 Mulgrave Street.This is a precautionary measure following a new visual report from a...
View ArticleChief Archivist Update
Thank you for all the messages of support following last week's earthquake. All of our Archives New Zealand staff are safe and well. My number one concern is staff wellbeing which is why we evacuated...
View ArticleEarthquake update 6 December
Kia ora koutou! Archives New Zealand is aware that there are a number of public offices who have been, or are still unable to gain access to their buildings due to the earthquake of 14 November 2016,...
View ArticleWellington services update and new guidance release
The current status of our Wellington office services are as follows:- Government Loans – if a public office has an urgent government loan, requests for information or requests for loan extensions,...
View ArticleArchives New Zealand Building Update - 22 December 2016
Since the recent 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake and subsequent aftershocks, the Archives New Zealand building on Mulgrave Street has been assessed by engineers as structurally sound however some remedial...
View ArticleArchives Wellington Services Update - 22 December 2016
The current status of our Wellington office services are as follows:- Government Loans – if a public office has an urgent government loan, requests for information or requests for loan extensions,...
View ArticleWellington Archives building reopens Tuesday 24 January
Kia ora koutou katoaArchives New Zealand’s Wellington building (Mulgrave Street) re-opens to the public on Tuesday 24 January 2017.The reading room service has been closed whilst we recovered from the...
View ArticleDirection and opportunities
Now that we are back in our Wellington building and into our work for the year here is an update on some of our projects of relevance to the sector.Our work supporting the Information and records...
View ArticleUpdate on the progress of releasing the digitisation guidance
Kia Ora Koutou The revised digitisation guidance is in the process of formal approval and we expect it to be available shortly. Once approved, the guidance will be published on the Records Toolkit and...
View ArticleDigitisation – updated guidance now available
Given the government's digital direction, digitisation is a continuing hot topic. Archives New Zealand has now released the updated Authority to retain public records in electronic form only and a new...
View ArticleSuspension of physical transfers to Archives New Zealand's Wellington repository
Archives New Zealand advises that it has suspended the transfer of physical records to its Wellington repository at Mulgrave Street until 1 December 2017. Why is this happening?A programme of remedial...
View ArticleThe Importance of Checksums
In the light of the recent interest in checksums, here is a revised version of the blog originally published last year.As we increasingly work in the digital world there are new areas of work for...
View ArticleChief Archivist's government recordkeeping report for 2015/16 now available
FYI - the Chief Archivist’s 2015/16 annual report to the Minister of Internal Affairs on the state of government recordkeeping was presented to the House of Representatives today. It is availabe from...
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Digital preservation pioneers needed now… talk to us about digital transfer
Recently there has been strong interest from the local IM community in checksums. See our previous post on checksums. Inevitably, thinking about checksums takes us to the broader subject of digital...
View ArticleNew guidance on information assets and administrative change
Information and records are at the core of government business and are a key strategic asset. Information assets, like other assets of an organisation need to be identified and managed so their maximum...
View ArticleDigitisation guidance and the new legislation
You may have noticed that new legislation, the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 (CCLA), came into effect on 1 September 2017. It is the first revision Act introduced under the Legislation Act 2012...
View ArticleWho holds the keys to your Content Management System?
Archives New Zealand released the first version of its Digital Transfer Readiness Characteristics guidance in October 2016. This blog focuses on the characteristic of ‘integrity’ in the context of your...
View ArticleDigital preservation at Archives New Zealand: the tools
Archives New Zealand’s tools for digital preservation come from a variety of sources and where possible are open-source and/or community driven, proven, and best-of-breed. The mix of tools includes:The...
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