Digital information is fragile
our mission is to safeguard it

Common File Format Initiatives – An industry model for scientific archiving?

I was delighted to be invited to speak to the recent Scientific Archivists Group (SAG) conference in Edinburgh The conference covered a range of topics on GxP. Looking at the different focuses when x = Clinical, Manufacturing, Laboratory, Pharma CoVigilance, or Drug Safety, how to develop risk based approach to records management, how to get [...]

Are you an IT archivist or a business information archivist?

There is a lot of debate about using storage and cloud storage in particular to archive digital information. I believe a better question is: Are you an IT archive or a business archive? A really good way to answer this question is to ask yourself are you preserving bits or are you preserving business information. [...]