Adjunct Associate Professor
Computer Science
La Trobe University
Bundoora
Victoria
Australia.
Liddy Nevile will be presenting on Fit for Human Consumption - Do today’s record preservation formats pass the ‘usable’ test for record keeping frameworks in Australia and New Zealand? on Tuesday
In the decade since digital resources have been, in many cases, the only records of human activity, and descriptions of them have been the only point of access to the records, we have recognized the need for long-term preservation of those digital resources.
The question in this paper is whether we have future-proofed our practices sufficiently to ensure that when we want to access those records, we will, indeed be able to find them and use them.
Already we have seen developments in preservation, access, discovery and delivery technologies that have radically altered the way we use the technological devices, the authority and provenance criteria, and the population of people who form the audiences for the resources.
Are we sure the resources will be, in the words of the Archives New Zealand Recordkeeping Framework, “identifiable, retrievable, accessible and available when needed”?
