Future Proof - Protecting Our Digital Future

State Records NSW's Future Proof strategy is about ensuring that official digital records of NSW government are meaningful, useable and trustworthy.

The Future Proof strategy consists of two main strands:
- improving digital recordkeeping across government, and
- implementing a digital archiving facility for New South Wales government.

To help public offices to implement better systems for keeping digital records, State Records will develop and issue standards that establish clear minimum requirements for system functionality and metadata, and more detailed specifications to help build or upgrade systems. We will also offer practical advice on records migration and update our suite of guidelines and training to better reflect the challenges of digital recordkeeping.

Without a facility to accept and preserve digital records as State archives, State Records can only partially perform its statutory role. That is why, in 2007, we developed and released a policy statement on the preservation of digital records. Based around the principles in this policy, we have prepared a plan to design and build NSW’s first digital archiving solution.