11b Building digital archiving capability at National Archives of Australia
Tracks
Practice and Identity
| Wednesday, October 19, 2022 |
| 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM |
Presentation Type
Traditional Paper -- Moderator: Nick Gleghorn
Session Information
Workforce Development: Session 11 focusses on how the role of the archivist is changing in the modern era along with the links the archivist has with society generally. These changes will impact on the skills the archivist will require in this new world. The approach in the session is to look at these aspects of using disabled people to digitise records at; the overall skills required by a modern audio-visual archivist; and developing skills for modern digital management practices.
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Dr Evanthia Samaras
Assistant Director, Digital Archives Innovation & Research
National Archives of Australia
Building digital archiving capability at National Archives of Australia
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The National Archives of Australia's vision under Strategy 2030 is for a transformed and trusted National Archives: a world-leading archive empowered and resourced to ensure that authentic government information is created, secured, preserved and accessible to government and the community. Underpinning this transformation is a comprehensive and focused drive for digital service delivery and capability. What does it mean to be a digital archivist, or an archivist in this digital age? In 2019 the National Archives developed a Digital Archiving Capability Strategy to respond to the challenge of upskilling staff to work confidently across physical and analogue records. As the period covered by the strategy comes to close, this paper reflects on the implementation of the strategy and ongoing efforts to improve capability.
