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Hamers Awards Thursday 16 May 2013: Part One
The Annual Sir Rupert Hamer Awards for excellence in records management were held on Thursday 16 May 2013 at the beautiful Queens Hall, Parliament. Around 140 people gathered to share in the celebration, enjoy the nibbles, drinks and music of the Lucca Ensemble before the awards began. As well as being the 15th year [...]
EDRMS and analyzing business processes
The State Records Authority of New South Wales has just published an interesting article on the benefits, or otherwise, of establishing business rules as part of an EDRMS implementation. The post can be found here: http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/to-analyse-business-processes-or-not-to-analyse-business-processes-that-is-the-question/
Recordkeeping Challenges
At the recent (Victorian) launch of Information Awareness Month, Judith Ellis talked about the challenges she saw facing recordkeeping. Many of the points Judith made echoed issues that the Standards and Policy team at PROV have identified. These include: The cost of compliant recordkeeping is too high, particularly for small organisations. A particular issue is [...]
ANDS Project at PROV
Back in November, I mentioned the work that PROV was undertaking on data release. Here is some detail to excite your interest. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Metadata Project will support the discovery, use and reuse of Victoria’s public records by exposing collection metadata on Research Data Australia’s website. Research Data Australia is an [...]
Evidence of the benefits of Records Management
If you have time you might be interested in reading this report. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND ESTIMATES COMMITTEE, 112th Report to Parliament, Inquiry into Effective Decision Making for the Successful Delivery of Significant Infrastructure Projects, December 2012. You can find it with the following link: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/paec/reports/PAEC_InfrastructureInquiry_FINAL-Report.pdf I was particularly struck with section 6.6 – Healthsmart, p130: [...]
The Year so far – Electronic Records Research and Development (VERS) (Part 2)
The electronic information environment is a rapidly changing space, where Government technology, and business applications are regularly updated to ensure they remain relevant. Over the last few years alone, the Victorian Government has strengthened their position in electronic information, by moving to an E*Gov model, and supporting a Gov 2.0 agenda. In responding to these [...]
The year so far (part 1)
As we are rapidly approaching the end of 2012, I thought I would take this opportunity to give you an update on our activities. Mind you this isn’t everything, rather it is a list of high profile projects and summaries of key programs. I have divided the list into our major program areas for ease [...]
Crowdsourcing Local History
“Crowdsourcing is the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of a specialized few.”Jeff Howe, contributing editor at Wired Magazine As part of Melbourne Knowledge Week, Public Record Office Victoria will be holding a workshop where you can find out how you [...]
Nudge and Behavioural Insights
I was lucky enough to attend the recent IPAA 2012 Conference (http://www.ipaa2012.org.au/). One of the presentations was by David Halpern (Director, Behavioural Insight Team at Cabinet Office). In this presentation, David identified a number of activities that his office was undertaking. The Behavioural Insights team is linked to the Nudge programs and Big Society. There [...]
