Digital Preservation

Since 2009, the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) Digital Preservation Working Group has been working to address the requirements for the preservation and management of digital records across Wales. The objective is to support digital preservation in a collaborative manner, whilst taking account of individual organisational imperatives.

The project has already made significant progress towards this aim, and partners are in the process of transitioning to a long-term sustainable service offer.

The Digital Preservation Working Group have produced a Digital Preservation Policy for 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.