New digitisation hub for National Archives of Australia
National Archives’ have signed a contract with commercial digitisation provider Micro Image to operate from the Archives’ new industrial scale digitisation hub.
Data and Digital Strategic Direction 2022-2025
The National Archives of Australia Data and Digital Strategic Direction 2022-2025 outlines a transformation and modernisation journey over four years.
Digital countdown to save the things we want to keep
Urgent action is required to save our digital heritage – the memories, events and documents we have kept on digital media over the past 40 years.
National Archives signs contracts worth $4.4m to digitise Second World War service records
The National Archives of Australia has signed contracts totalling $4.4 million for the bulk digitisation of more than 650,000 Second World War service records.
Managing records of Commonwealth persons - Personal record collections
The term 'personal record collections' is used by the Archives to refer to groups of records accumulated and maintained by significant individuals (for their own purposes) who served within, or were closely associated with, the Commonwealth Government. Personal records add to the understanding of Commonwealth records created by government departments and agencies.
Who is Margaret Williamson? National Archives prepares to digitise final Second World War service record
National Archives of Australia is seeking public help to locate the family of Margaret Williamson, whose Second World War service record will be the last to be digitised as part of a 5-year-long project.
National Archives and Preservica partner to secure Australia’s digital memory
The National Archives of Australia has signed a 3-year contract for a specialist digital preservation system with sector leader Preservica.
Managing information assets
Many systems are used to create and manage information in physical and digital formats. Learn more about these systems and how to manage different types of information in digital and physical formats.
General Records Authority 31
This authority is a key element in the suite of tools created by the National Archives to foster digital business processes and digital information management for efficiency purposes
World-first virtual assistant wins coveted digital excellence award
'Alex', the world's first virtual assistant for intellectual property enquiries, was just one of the impressive winning entries in the National Archives of Australia's 2018 Digital Excellence Awards.
Government Citizen Engagement in the Digital Age
Speech by National Archives' Director-General David Fricker as part of the Senate's 2017 Occasional Lecture Series, Canberra, 2017.
Retrieving records from the National Archives for agencies
From 1 January 2018, the National Archives will provide agencies access to unclassified paper records through the Agency Digitisation Service .
New preservation standards for the national archival collection
New Preservation Digitisation Standards set out the technical requirements for digitising physical records in line with international best practice.
Disposal of Commonwealth records in the absence of an agency-specific records authority
This advice for record disposal is for Australian Government agencies that do not have, or are in the process of developing, agency-specific records authorities
Frozen memories, now digital: Antarctic photographic collections preserved for future generations
National Archives of Australia and the Australian Antarctic Division have completed a transfer of records documenting early 20th century Antarctic expeditions.
Cabinet records
Records of Cabinet meetings document many of the major decisions in Australia's history.
Records in evidence
Problems can arise with legal acceptance of records as evidence if appropriate business practices are not followed in creating and maintaining records.
Discovering Anzacs website decommissioned, making way for innovative new digital experiences
National Archives of Australia’s Discovering Anzacs website has been decommissioned after almost 10 years of service.
The Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) System
The Commonwealth Record Series System lets the National Archives keep track of Commonwealth Government agencies and the records they produce.