Records Advices
Records Advices are provided to give a brief introduction to a range of records management topics. The Territory Records Office is progressively updating its advice products for agencies.
Please Note: These Records Advices have been developed to assist government agencies and their employees to better manage their recordkeeping. All advice is for their use only and is provided here for the information of members of the public. All enquiries by members of the public concerning the information provided or the resources mentioned in these advices should be directed to the Territory Records Office.
Downloads
| Advice | PDF Links | Word Links |
|---|---|---|
| Assess - What is a record? |  PDF
|  DOC |
| Assess - Digital signatures and authorisation | PDF | DOC |
| Assess - Normal Administrative Practice | PDF
| DOC |
| Assess - Sentencing of records | PDF
|  RTF
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| Assess - Significant Records | PDF | DOC |
| Assess - Vital records | PDF | DOC |
| Assess - Intrinsic value | PDF | DOC |
| Assess - Identity Verification | DOC | |
| Access - Format of records for public access | PDF
| RTF
|
| Access - Preparing ACT Government records for public access | PDF
| RTF
|
| Access - Roles in Public Access | PDF | DOC |
| Access - What is a Section 28 declaration? | PDF
| RTF
|
| Access - How a Section 28 declaration is made | PDF | RTF |
| Access - Preparation for a Section 28 declaration | PDF
| |
| Access - Application under Section 28 | PDF
| DOC |
| Access - Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (ArchivesACT) | ||
| Capability - Professional capability and development | PDF | RTF |
| Capability - Records Information Data Management Responsibilities of Senior Managers | PDF | DOC |
| Describe - Metadata Principles | PDF | DOC |
| Protect - Outsourced services contract requirements | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Authorised Destruction Methods | PDF
| RTF |
| Retain - Authorising destruction of ACT Government records | PDF | RTF |
| Retain - Decommissioning business systems | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Digital Preservation | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Digitisation and disposal of source records | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Digitisation Technical Specifications | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Disposal and Destruction Terminology | PDF | RTF |
| Retain - Electronic recording of business meetings | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Institutional responses to child sexual abuse royal commission - creation and retention of records | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Managing web content as records | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Overview of records disposal and destruction | PDF | RTF |
| Retain - Records Disposal Freeze - Superannuation Records 2010-2030. Post Cornwell Superannuation Case Litigation - Processing of Additional Claims | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Records and Legal Proceedings | PDF | RTF |
| Retain - Selecting records as Territory archives | PDF | RTF |
| Retain - Social Media Recordkeeping Requirements and Strategy | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - Social Media Capture - Content and Scenarios | PDF | DOC |
| Retain - What is a records disposal freeze | PDF | RTF |
Retain - Medical certificates or statutory declarations for routine personal leave applications | ||
| Strategy - ACT Government Records Digitisation Guidelines | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Digital Records Transition Benefits Realisation | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - FAIR and CARE for Information Professionals | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Features of Content Manager and Objective | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Making your Annual Records Management Maturity Assessment work for you | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Managing Digital Records in Business Systems | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Managing records during administrative change | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Microsoft 365 Compliance | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Overview of Records by Design | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Records by Design – Identifying recordkeeping requirements for business systems | PDF | DOC |
| Strategy - Disaster recovery planning for physical records | PDF | DOC |