.... By improving digital preservation practices, these repositories can serve as reliable resources for education, cultural engagement and community empowerment, ultimately strengthening social cohesion and collective memory in South Africa. Originality/value This study provides a comprehensive evaluation...

...Mpubane Emanuel Matlala; Thandukwazi Richman Ncube; Steven Parbanath Purpose This study aims to assess the status of the digital records preservation practices in the South African public sector at the national department level. It set out to establish to what extent digital preservation policies...

... impact on scientific and mainstream discussion in the 2000s, and by 2010 the over-arching theme became focused on digital preservation of web content, as demonstrated in this study. Failure to preserve data can lead to a rapid loss of climate change information, due to the inherent ephemerality...

...Tolulope Balogun; Trywell Kalusopa Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the digital preservation policies and plans for long-term digital preservation in selected repositories in South Africa, with a view to develop a digital preservation framework for the preservation of Indigenous...

... and security and clinical adoption and utilization. Records management and archives professionals may have specific concerns as these tools gain global popularity and adoption. Data management Digital preservation Electronic health record Electronic medical record Patient health records Personal...

...Jaana Pinnick Purpose The aim of this paper was to explore digital preservation requirements within the wider National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) organisational framework in preparation for developing a preservation policy and integrating associated preservation workflows throughout...

... The methodological approach involves using the requirements embedded in records management and digital preservation standards, specifically ISO 15,489, ARMA’s Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles, ISO 14,721 and ISO 16,363, as a general evaluative framework for a risk-based assessment of a specific proposed...

...Andrew Flinn Edited by Christopher A.   Lee . I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Age . Society of American Archivists , 2011 . 379 pp. , ISBN: 9780838911556 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Digital preservation Archives Records...