Looking Back to the Future and its 10 Key Documents

Looking Back to the Future

Simon Davis, Looking Back to the Future: 30 Years of Keeping Electronic Records in the National Archives of Australia, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2004

1. 'The good oil for Australia'

Steve Stuckey, ‘The good oil for Australia: petroleum data’ in Barbara Reed and David Roberts (eds), Keeping Data: Papers from a Workshop on Appraising Computer-based Records, presented by the Australian Council of Archives and the Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated on 10–12 October 1990, Australian Council of Archives and Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 1991, pp. 95–104.

2. Managing Electronic Records: Papers from a Workshop

Dagmar Parer and Ron Terry (eds), Managing Electronic Records: Papers from a Workshop on Managing Electronic Records of Archival Value, 30 October 1992, Australian Council of Archives and Australian Society of Archivists, Canberra, 1993.

3. 'Australian Archives’ approach to preserving long-term access to the Commonwealth’s electronic records’

Stephen Ellis and Steve Stuckey, ‘Australian Archives’ approach to preserving long-term access to the Commonwealth’s electronic records’ in Stephen Yorke (ed.), Playing for Keeps: The Proceedings of an Electronic Records Management Conference, hosted by the Australian Archives, Canberra, 8–10 November 1994, Australian Archives, Canberra, 1995, pp. 113–32.

4. Managing Electronic Records: A Shared Responsibility

Australian Archives, Managing Electronic Records: A Shared Responsibility, Australian Archives, Canberra, 1995, a copy is available on the National Archives website, Recordkeeping Publications Archive

5. Keeping Electronic Records: Policy for Electronic Recordkeeping in the Commonwealth Government

Greg O’Shea (ed.), Keeping Electronic Records: Policy for Electronic Recordkeeping in the Commonwealth Government, Australian Archives, Canberra, 1995, a copy is available on the National Archives website, Recordkeeping Publications Archive

6. Australian Government Locator Service, version 1.0 (1998)

Renato Ianella, The Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Manual for Users, version 1.0, National Archives of Australia and Office for Government Information Technology, Canberra, 1998, a copy is available on the National Archives website, Recordkeeping Publications Archive

7. Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems, exposure draft (2000)

National Archives of Australia, Designing and Implementing Recordkeeping Systems: Manual for Commonwealth Agencies, exposure draft, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2000, a copy is available on the National Archives website, Recordkeeping Publications Archive

8. Custody Policy for Commonwealth Records

Australian Archives, Custody Policy for Commonwealth Records, March 2000, naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/rkpubs/recordkeeping_publications_arc/custody_policy.html

9. An Approach to the Preservation of Digital Records

Helen Heslop, Simon Davis, and Andrew Wilson, An Approach to the Preservation of Digital Records, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002 published at www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/digital_preservation/summary.html

10. Making, Keeping and Using Digital Records

National Archives of Australia, Making, Keeping and Using Digital Records, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2004, published online at www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/summary.html