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| News - Digital Archive Launch The official launch of the Digital Archive at PROV was on 13 December 2005. An online media kit zip file (11.7 MB) is available, providing media releases, speech notes and demonstrations of the new Digital Archive website. The Digital Recordkeeping
newsletter provides further background on the project. Why a Digital Archive? With the increased uptake of VERS throughout the Victorian Government, and the establishment of the Centre of Excellence in 2002 to support the further roll out of VERS, the Victorian Government will be producing more and more VERS-compliant digital records (VEOs). As agencies finish using the VEOs in their day to day work, records of permanent value will be transferred to PROV as part of agency's records disposal program. PROV must be ready to receive transfers of these VEOs and to preserve them. To support this requirement PROV was funded to build a Digital Archive. The PROV Digital Archive manages and preserves permanent VEOs of the Victorian Government, and enables online access to VEOs. The access component to the PROV Digital Archive provides user access to the physical collection at PROV. For physical records, 'access' refers to the ability to search or browse the descriptive metadata about records, and to order records for viewing in a Reading Room. For digital records, 'access' also covers the ability to search or browse descriptive metadata and other metadata about VEOs, as well as rendering copies of VEOs to the User's desktop. The PROV Digital Archive also includes a digital repository facility. The digital repository is a storage system which houses digital objects, specifically born-electronic records (which might have been created as word processing documents, spreadsheets, emails, databases, websites etc) and digitised copies of physical records in the form of VEOs. A primary repository is maintained at PROV and an off-site secondary repository provides backup and disaster recovery capabilities. The Digital Archive has been operational, for record transfers and for online access, since August 2005. | |||||
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