Stage 4: Maintain digital continuity

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This section explains the ongoing process of embedding digital continuity in your organisation’s business processes and strategies in a way that maintains the usability of your information.

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Stage 4: Maintain digital continuity (PDF, 0.09Mb)

Guidance for Stage 4

Embedding digital continuity in information management

This guidance explains how you can maintain digital continuity through good management of information, and ensure these actions are supported at a senior level.

Embedding Digital Continuity in Information Management (PDF, 0.18Mb)

Incorporating digital continuity into your IT strategy

This guidance will help you to understand the principles to follow when including digital continuity in the planning and development of your IT infrastructure.

Incorporating Digital Continuity into your IT Strategy (PDF, 0.10Mb)

Embedding digital continuity in your IT environment

This guidance will help you to embed digital continuity thinking into your organisation’s IT operational management.

Embedding Digital Continuity in your IT Environment (PDF, 0.10Mb)

Change guidance

Our change guidance below helps those responsible for implementing digital continuity across their organisations to manage and protect their digital continuity through change, to ensure business-critical information remains usable.

Change Management for Digital Continuity SROs (PDF, 0.19Mb)

Digital Continuity for Change Managers (PDF, 0.17Mb)

Migrating information between EDRMS

This guidance will help you prepare for migrating information between record management systems. This could be the migration between Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) or Content Management Systems (CMS), or from one to the other. It focuses on maintaining the continuity of your information.

Migrating information between records management systems (PDF, 0.29Mb)

Project checklist for records management system migration (PDF, 0.09Mb)

Evaluating your file formats

The guidance below will help you to evaluate your file formats from a digital continuity perspective and employ strategies to maintain the continuity of your digital information.

DROID: user guide (PDF, 0.64 Mb)