What's New

April 2008

• The Archives New Zealand Appraisal Policy exposure draft is available for comment

February 2008

• New Beginners Guide to Appraisal now available.

November 2007

• The Create and Maintain Standard and the Recordkeeping Metadata Standard exposure drafts are available for comment.
• Report from the 2007 Annual Government Recordkeeping Survey now available.

September 2007

• The revised Storage Standard has been issued. This standard is mandatory for public offices and local authorities.
• Disposal Authorities and Public Registers can now be viewed on Archway.

August 2007

• New fact sheet available: F17 Using External Providers for Appraisal.

July 2007

• The latest Government Recordkeeping Newsletter is now available online.
• The revised storage standard has been approved as the first mandatory standard under the Public Records Act.
• Webcasts from the June Recordkeeping Forum, Navigating the Metadata Maze are now available.

June 2007

• The Recordkeeping Metadata Standard project is now underway.
• Information on the eDRMS Interest Group is now available.
• Create and Maintain Standard

May 2007

• New fact sheets published: F12: What is a Public Office?, F15: The PRA and Central Government and F16: The PRA and Local Government.
  
  A list of all public offices is now available on our website.
  
  
• Government Recordkeeping Newsletters are now available online.

April 2007

• New Standard and General Disposal Authority published: Digitisation Standard and General Disposal Authority for Digitised Original Source Records

March 2007

• Storage Standard Exposure Draft released for consultation.

January 2007

• General Disposal Authority for District Health Boards: The Chief Archivist has approved the General Disposal Authority (GDA) for District Health Boards (DHBs). The GDA outlines the minimum retention periods and final disposal actions for clinical and non-clinical records created by DHBs of all formats and age.

October 2006

• General Disposal Authority 4 (GDA/4) ‘Administration and Corporate Services Records’ has just been printed and is now available for use by all public offices.
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• We have just created a combined index to all four published General Disposal Authorities.
  View GDA Index

September 2006

• Standards Strategy and Methodology
• Recordkeeping Forum — Previous Papers — Setting the Standard
• Continuum Update Project — August 2006
• Training for Recordkeeping in Government Project

May 2006

• Storage Standard Review

April 2006

• Revised: General Disposal Authorities Implementation Guide

March 2006

• Revised advisory notice: Making Access Decisions under the Public Records Act
  
  
• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Electronic Recordkeeping: PRA Standards and the Digital Workplace

February 2006

• Digital Recordkeeping

December 2005

• Recordkeeping Forum: “Measuring Up” - Reporting and Audit Under the PRA

November 2005

• New Guide: G4. Preparing an Appraisal Report

October 2005

• Annual Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping: Archives New Zealand’s 5th Annual Report includes our first Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping, as required under the New Public Records Act. A summary of recommendations by the Chief Executive / Chief Archivist on the state of government recordkeeping can be found on page 83.
  (added 20 October)

September 2005

• Disposal under the Public Records Act 2005. Presentations
  (Added 3rd September 2005)

August 2005

• New Standard issued: Electronic Recordkeeping Systems Standard
  (Added 31st August 2005)

April 2005

• Enactment of Public Records Act 2005
  

July 2005

• Open or Closed? Making Access Decisions under the PRA 2005
  (Added 25th July 2005)

May 2005

• The Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI), Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia
  (Added 18th May 2005)

February 2005

• "The ALGIM Toolkit Implementation Schedule - Why and How." Mike Manson, AGLIM.
  (Added 16th February 2005)
• "Disaster Preparedness Planning." Jonathan London, Archives New Zealand.
  (Added 16th February 2005)

January 2005

• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Local Government Implementation Schedule
  (Added 12th January 2005)

October 2004

• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Disaster Preparedness and Vital Records Programmes
  (Added 25th October 2004)
• Outreach Kia whakakautoro - special issue on the Public Records Bill
• HTML versions of the Continuum publications

August 2004

• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Electronic Recordkeeping Systems Standard
  (Added 11th August 2004)

July 2004

• G20. Guide to Developing Recordkeeping Strategies for Websites
  (Added 6th July 2004)

May 2004

• Recordkeeping Forum Programme
  (Added 31st May 2004)
• Access Arrangements Information
  (Added 25th May 2004)
• S5. Exposure Draft of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems Standard
  (Added 6th May 2004)
• Letter Accompanying Exposure Draft
  (Added 6th May 2004)

April 2004

• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Digitisation
  (Added 26th April 2004)
• GDA Workshop Invitation - Revised
  (Added 26th April 2004)
• GDA Workshop Programme - Revised
  (Added 8th April 2004)

March 2004

• Recordkeeping Forum Programme
  (Added 4th March 2004)

February 2004

• Electronic Transactions Act 2002 and the Archives Act 1957 Presentation by Adam Stapleton, Archives Analyst (Added 19th February 2004)
• General Disposal Authority (GDA) Workshops
  (Added 3rd February 2004)

January 2004

• General Disposal Authorities (GDAs)
  (Added 12th January 2004)

December 2003

• Provision of General Disposal Authorities
  (Added 16th December 2003)

November 2003

• Recordkeeping Forum Programme
  (Added 24th November 2003)
• Recordkeeping Essentials for Chief Executives and Senior Managers
  (Added 4th November 2003)

October 2003

• Electronic Records Fact Sheet
  (Added 31st October 2003)
• Recordkeeping Forum Programme
  (Added 31st October 2003)
• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Education and Training
  (Added 31st October 2003)

September 2003

• Recordkeeping Metadata Standard Scoping Paper
  (Added 4th September 2003)
• Standard for Electronic Recordkeeping Systems Scoping Paper
  (Added 4th September 2003)

August 2003

• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers - Records Disposal
  (Added 8th August 2003)

July 2003

• Public Recordkeeping Legislation
  (Added 21st July 2003)

June 2003

• Recordkeeping Forum Programme
  (Added 6th June 2003)
• Recordkeeping Forum - Previous Papers
  (Added 6th June 2003)
• ISO 15489
  (Added 6th June 2003)
• Speech by Hon Marian Hobbs (external link), Minister Responsible for Archives New Zealand, at Continuum launch, March 2003.
  (Added 6th June 2003)