The Welsh Vital Digital Information Project

The Welsh Vital Digital Information Project brought together local authority archive services from across the whole of Wales to look at ways of preserving born-digital Council material.  Funded by the Welsh Government’s Local Government Digital Transformation Fund,  a project steering group worked on identifying the issues and consider potential solutions to the problems of digital preservation of Council-created records. 

The discovery phase aimed to:

• Understand the barriers or issues, strategic, organisational and technological, involved with providing long term access to Council records.

• Develop a proposed solution to the problem, and help to develop the next phase of any work required to move this process on.

• Understand the barriers and opportunities to the archive services in undertaking digital preservation in general.

Although this project’s original focus was long-term access to records held on Council line of business systems, it has also focused on understanding the barriers and opportunities for the archive services undertaking digital preservation in general. The project report was published in March 2021.