This research theme captures:
- Our challenges in appraisal, selection and sensitivity review, as we expand our archival practice to include new collections and real-time published court judgements, in becoming the ‘archive not just of government but of the state’;
- The use of technology, including AI, to help make decisions about what should be transferred to the archive;
- And the need to preserve physical and digital records, including AI models, independently of the software that was used to create them.
Our priorities are:
- What should we collect, preserve and present, as we shape changing standards, practices and cultures in managing information, to fully realise the value of authenticity, trusted evidence and the archive in a democratic society?
- How can we use AI and other emerging technologies, in an ethical, safe and transparent way, to solve our biggest archival practice challenges in preservation, selection and sensitivity review?
- How do we use the latest advances in scientific and conservation practice to preserve the physical record for future generations?
- How do we rethink our own role as a researching archive, creating encounters between different institutions and disciplines, and leading and learning from others in our research practice
- Policy and legal infrastructure: understanding information legislation, data protection, and our role as custodian of the record of the state.
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