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How one of the world’s largest archives is managing the move from parchment to pixels

From the Domesday Book to modern government papers, the UK National Archives' collection of more than 11m historical government and public records is one of the world’s largest. It includes paper and parchment, photographs, maps and paintings, but also a vast number of digital records such as archived government websites, emails and social media posts. Paper may last for thousands of years, but what about the ever-expanding quantity of digital documents?

Anatomy of a messaging breakdown

Following the release of the Debelle Commission report, a Select Committee of the South Australian Parliament undertook its own inquiry into the circumstances around the missing email. It reported to Parliament in late 2013. It undertook rigorous questioning of Telstra, provider of the South Australian Government Electronic Messaging System (SAGEMS), and the then SA Government Chief Information Officer Andrew Mills.

Office 365 gets Australian data centres in 2015

Microsoft has announced plans to deliver Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from data centres in Australia by the end of March, 2015 to address data residency considerations, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, education, government and financial services.

Rio Tinto mines dark data

Mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a global agreement with Active Navigation to analyse and support the management of its unstructured data.  Rio Tinto is using Active Navigation to remediate over a petabyte of unstructured content (over a billion files) that’s spread out over five continents.

The missing email that sent SA into a spin

It was a solitary email that became pivotal to a Royal Commission and a Parliamentary Inquiry; two investigations that have had significant implications for government recordkeeping in South Australia and continue to resonate today.

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