26. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the serious challenges which exist to the proper digital preservation of records at the National Archives; her views that the urgent onus should be on the prompt preservation of such records to best international standards to eliminate the risk of degradation over time and counter inevitable technological obsolescence; if she is further aware that the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland applies its digital preservation models to the records management standard; if there is a comparable standard in operation in the State; the cross-Border co-operation that exists in this regard; if she is considering increasing the financial allocation to the National Archives to aid it to overcome these specific challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39542/15]

Summary

26. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the serious challenges which exist to the proper digital preservation of records at the National Archives; her views that the urgent onus should be on the prompt preservation of such records to best international standards to eliminate the risk of degradation over time and counter inevitable technological obsolescence; if she is further aware that the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland applies its digital preservation models to the records management standard; if there is a comparable standard in operation in the State; the cross-Border co-operation that exists in this regard; if she is considering increasing the financial allocation to the National Archives to aid it to overcome these specific challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39542/15]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• National Archives

  xml · EN · 12 November 2015

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.