Category Archives: Government Recordkeeping
Invitation to the Sir Rupert Hamer Awards Thursday 16 May 2013
The Public Records Advisory Council in association with Public Record Office Victoria takes pleasure in inviting you to this year’s Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards. The Hamer Awards recognise excellence and innovation in records management within the Victorian Public Sector and achievements of Community Archives in making records accessible to local communities. The awards [...]
Government Restructure
To assist agencies that are affected by the recent government restructure, the Guide on Transfer of Custodianship provides practical advice on the transfer of records, information and data from one agency to another. A plan for the transfer of records between agencies is required (see PROS 10/17 S1 Operations Management Specification). This will assist both [...]
Update on Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
The Royal Commission held its first day of hearings on 3 April 2012. The transcripts are available at http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/Hearings/Pages/Hearings-transcripts.aspx The Senior Counsel Assisting, Ms Gail Furness SC, described the types of institutions that the Commission will be investigating. These include (the text is taken verbatim from the draft transcript p13-14): residential care facilities such as orphanages, [...]
ORDA (Online Retention and Disposal Application)
A key activity being undertaken by PROV to support the development of Retention and Disposal Authorities is the implementation of an Online Retention and Disposal Application (ORDA). ORDA is a web based application developed by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SROWA) as a project of the Australasian Digital Records Initiative (ADRI). With ADRI [...]
vive la différence!
For many years PROV has been promoting the importance of records and recordkeeping. We have highlighted such things as: The redevelopment of records management standards The achievement of VERS Stage 1 measured by an EDRMS implementation The ubiquity of records across varying formats and systems I understand that often the related promotional messages have been [...]
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 [...]
A VERS project on Information Management
One of the projects that PROV is currently undertaking is a visioning exercise. In this we are considering information management within the VPS in 2017/18. Currently interviews and data are being collected and we expect that the report will be available early next year. In the meantime, you might be interested in the reasoning behind [...]
Archives New Zealand Recordkeeping Audit Report
Archives New Zealand has released a report of audits of agencies for the financial year 2010-11. Please click here for a link to the report.
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: [...]
Royal Commission into Child Abuse
The Commonwealth Government is establishing a Royal Commission into Child Abuse which will have an impact on a number of Victorian government agencies. Documents which may be required for the Royal Commission must not be destroyed even if a disposal authorisation is in place. While the terms of reference have not been finalised, it is [...]
