In July 2023 Queensland State Archives (QSA) launched Queensland’s digital archive, which means we can now store, manage and preserve the State’s permanent value born-digital records. We have started preserving digital records already held in our collection on physical carriers such as CD-ROMs and floppy disks.
Later this year we will start accepting transfers of born-digital records from agencies. Transferring your permanent value born-digital records to QSA can assist you in meeting your legislative requirements of maintaining records in a usable form under the Public Records Act 2002.
Benefits for your agency include:
Digital records are fragile and have a relatively short life span, however they constitute significant records of government. There are a number of key steps that you can follow when creating digital records to preserve the authenticity and integrity of these government records for future use and reuse.
Digital archive advice for record managers provides more detailed information on Queensland's digital archive.
Resources and tools for records management have been developed to help you implement best practice records management in your agency.
