Category Archives: Update

Drawing insight and inspiration from tradition: The Australian Series System and digital recordkeeping – An interactive workshop

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

Archival institutions the world over are battling to reinvent their traditional processes, practices and systems in order to deal with the scale, complexity and richness of contemporary digital records. Come and join speakers from Archives New Zealand, the Public Record … Continue reading →

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Hacking the archives: Archival description in an online world

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

How do we ensure that “meaning as well as content lies at the end of the road to discovery?” Recordkeepers strive to contextualise, authenticate and preserve evidence. They create detailed descriptive tools and infrastructures as means to describe and manage … Continue reading →

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Save the date..

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

August 24 to be precise. We’re working on our next event, again at the Technology Park in Redfern. Probably a slightly earlier start time of 5pm for 5.30. The topic, speakers and other details will be released very soon!  

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Where do old websites go to die? Jason Scott of Archive Team

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

The Recordkeeping Roundtable is pleased to announce its next event: Where do old websites go to die?, with Jason Scott, founder of the US based, self described ‘loose coalition of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths’, Archive Team. When: Wednesday June … Continue reading →

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Stay tuned: More Recordkeeping Roundtable coming soon

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

We’re planning our next event –  in June, if it all comes together (and it’s looking mighty promising). It will be in Sydney, again at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern, 5.30 for 6.00pm ’til 8.00pm latest. So keep Wednesday June … Continue reading →

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Who’s afraid of WikiLeaks? @ Sydney Writers Festival

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Cassie Findlay

The Recordkeeping Roundtable are off on an outing! If you are interested in WikiLeaks, this is an impressive panel & worth a look. Let us know if you’re going, it would be great to all catch up for a chat … Continue reading →

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