Update on digital transfer at Archives NZ presented for GOVSIG 2016 at the ASA Conference, Parramatta.

1. Australian Society of Archivists
Conference 2016, Parramatta
GOVSIG meeting
Update on digital transfer at Archives NZ
Ross Spencer
Digital Preservation Analyst
Systems Strategy and Standards team

2. Department of Internal Affairs
Government Digital Archive

3. Department of Internal Affairs
Interim Response to Born Digital Records and
Archives
• Practical work on existing born-digital accessions
• Skills and knowledge development
• Learned about internal capability, processes and systems
• Identified need for more experience with agencies
• Established baseline capability

4. Department of Internal Affairs
Current position
• Capability to accept some types of digital transfer
• Publish information about current position:
http://records.archives.govt.nz/assets/Guidance-new-standard/Digital-transfer-
readiness-characteristics-16-F18.pdf
• Find potential agency partners to do transfers
• Discover more about agency capability and requirements

5. Department of Internal Affairs
Our approach - flexible
• Flexible, project-based, case-by-case approach
• Headlines:
• Collaborative effort
• No rigid format or metadata requirements or specifications
• Starting small
• Challenges:
• Representation of record-to-record relationships
• Effort required for reviewing records

6. Department of Internal Affairs
Our approach – iterative

7. Department of Internal Affairs
Our approach – modular

8. Thank you
ross.spencer@dia.govt.nz