Category Archives: Report
Digital archives: Here’s the problem – how would YOU address it?
Report back from the Recordkeeping Roundtable workshop at #ARANZASA in Christchurch, NZ By Anne Picot A gathering of over 50 records and archives practitioners tossed ideas around for 4 hours wrestling with the difficulties of what, when and how of … Continue reading
Report from Improving access to archives and other records
On Monday March 31 the Recordkeeping Roundtable hosted an evening event exploring the possibilities for better, more connected online access to archives. Our aim was to consider ideas put forward by Chris Hurley in his ‘modest proposal’ for improving access … Continue reading
Report from Game On! The challenges of digital games preservation and why it matters
About 30 interested people from a variety of backgrounds met on April 2nd at the University of Sydney to hear Associate Professor Melanie Swalwell from Flinders University speak at The Recordkeeping Roundtable event ‘Game On! The Challenges of digital game … Continue reading
Stilgherrian on information release; orderly and disorderly
Transcript of talk by Stilgherrian from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. Thanks Cass, thanks everyone. Yes, it’s somehow appropriate we start this, I think, with the disorderly side of accessing information because what I’d like … Continue reading
Tim Robinson on privacy, FOI and recordkeeping
Transcript of talk by Tim Robinson from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. I’ve suddenly thought of… some years ago, just after the State Records Act was introduced I was at a retreat, at a couple … Continue reading
Philip Dorling on leaks, whistleblowing, archives, access to information and the behaviour of governments
Transcript of talk by Dr Philip Dorling from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. Just as I was walking across the very wet car park this evening I was reminded of just how fragile information can be, … Continue reading
Are mechanisms for information access that we have now supporting a just and functional society? If not, what else?
Transcript of opening remarks by Cassie Findlay from the Freedom of information? panel discussion held in Sydney on February 29 2012. A year on from The Recordkeeping Roundtable’s first event; ‘After Wikileaks, is is all over for The Archives?’, we return … Continue reading
Freedom of information? discussion panel: podcasts
On a very wet Wednesday evening in February, we heard from three fascinating speakers in our Freedom of information? panel discussion on orderly and disorderly methods of information access and release, government secrecy and what needs to change. Our speakers … Continue reading
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