The National Archives Digital Continuity Project
In our digital world of rapid technological change and growth, we often take for granted our ability to access the information we create without fully understanding the many risks to that information, inherent in both its digital form and the ways in which we value and manage it. Digital Continuity is the idea of ensuring that our data assets can continue to be interpreted as information assets and therefore into knowledge until those information assets are no longer required.
The National Archives' Digital Continuity Project was set up to provide a solution to maintaining continuity to information within central government through a shared service comprising guidance and a framework of tools and services, with scope for wider roll out into the public sector.
This talk will outline the idea of continuity and the context of the changing digital environment in which it sits, risks to continuity, and some background on the project itself and our approach.
Mark Merifield, The National ArchivesMark joined The National Archives Digital Continuity Project team in April 2008. Prior to his first foray in to the public sector he spent eight years in STM (Science Technical Medical) publishing: first as a customer services manager and then... more...
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