Staff Toolkit

This policy has been produced by Archives and Records Council Wales in recognition of the significant strategic challenge digital preservation presents to organisations in Wales currently creating records, and to the archive services which are responsible for their permanent preservation. The proper care and management of digital records requires additional resource and new skills which […]

This training was provided by Digital Preservation Project Staff at The National Library of Wales in June 2021. These resources are still available for reference, however the content will not be updated. The aim of these sessions was to exchange knowledge and practical experience in digital preservation to enable digital preservation actions to be undertaken […]

The following resources and guidance on records surveying and risk monitoring have been brought together as part of the Archives and Records Council Wales Records at Risk project funded by The National Archives Covid-19 Archives Fund. The guidance is organised into two key strands. The first (‘Identifying and Rescuing Archives and Records at Risk’) provides information about […]

The Kickstart Cymru project aimed to increase all-Wales capacity to preserve born digital information by building on the work of the Saving the Bits training programme. The stand-alone workstations provided by this project include the necessary hardware and software to enable secure, reliable and resilient acquisition processes. Guidance on using the workflow is available to […]