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Digital Continuity 2020 / Deadline 2025
On October 27th, 2015, the National Archives of Australia announced its Digital Continuity 2020 program to modernize the information management practices of the government for the digital age. The policies of Digital Continuity 2020 issued by the authority of the National Archives apply to the whole of the Australian government and seek to improve efficiency and access of all services.

Deadline 2025 is a collaboration between the National Archives of Australia and the National Sound and Film Archives to prioritize digitization of valuable media stored on magnetic tape which may deteriorate to the point of being unusable by 2025.

Diversity Initiatives
Bring Them Home name index

Reconciliation Action Plan

Employment 3%

Aboriginal Australians

Torres Strait Islanders

Indigenous Australians

In 2014, the National Archives of Australia announced its Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to foster better relations with its indigenous population, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The RAP is a multifaceted approach to drawing attention to the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, engaging and illustrating their culture respectfully, and providing improved access to their historical records. A main feature of this initiative is the Bringing Them Home name index which leverages the National Archives' collection of records to facilitate genealogical research for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The National Archives also seeks to have 3% of their workforce comprised of those who identify themselves as indigenous to foster diversity and increase representation in the archival profession.

Discovering Anzacs Digital Partnership
In 2014, the National Archives of Australia, in partnership with Archives New Zealand, created the digital repository Discovering Anzacs to commemorate the centenary of World War I and each nation's role in the war effort at home and abroad. The repository features the complete and fully digitized service records of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). Service records are also displayed geographically on a map of the world to indicate each individual's place of birth, enlistment, death and burial. Users are encouraged to transcribe the official records to improve access and add personal comments, photos and stories to give greater context to each record.

Facilities Addition
On Friday, June 9th 2017 (International Archives Day), the National Archives of Australia officially opened the new, purpose-built National Archives Preservation Facility in Canberra, separate from the National Office which houses the reading room and galleries. The building is 17,000 square meters and will add storage for more than 100 kilometers of paper and audiovisual records.

Link to NAA budget 2018-19 from national gov't:

https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Budgets/Budget2018-19/Documents/PBS-National-Archives-2018-19.pdfAdd locations of satellite offices:

South Australia - Adelaide

Queensland - Brisbane

Northern Territory - Darwin

Tasmania - Hobart

Victoria - Melbourne

Western Australia - Perth

New South Wales - Sydney



Article Review: Digital Curation
Probably too much detail for the casual reader, the author goes pretty deeply into the specifics of digital curation using a lot of language that may be opaque to someone not in the field. There are probably too many different headings as well. I'd say less information, better organized would be an improvement. Even as a student in an MLIS program with a section on digital curation, I still found the information a bit hard to digest.

On the positive side, there are plenty of citations for all the facts presented covering multiple perspectives. However, at the time of viewing, two of the citation links have become broken. The language employed by the author is not biased or opinionated and the tone remains neutrals. To the best of my knowledge the information is pretty up to date. The opening paragraph is perhaps the best part giving a fairly clear outline, the level of detail that follows in the body of the article may be overboard.