Research and development

Initiatives

ADRI initiatives will include common standards and specifications, guidelines and best practice manuals, case studies, marketing and promotional material as well as strategic documents designed to guide the work of ADRI.

ADRI has agreed that member institutions will work together to deliver the following:

Strategic tools

  1. ADRI strategic plan and framework
  2. Generic business cases for digital recordkeeping
  3. Archival staff training workshops in digital recordkeeping

Common standards and specifications

  1. Standard transfer format for digital records
  2. Generic specifications for records management software functionality
  3. Generic specifications for digital archive hardware and software functionality

Guidelines and best practices manuals

  1. Managing recordkeeping metadata in archival systems (policy/procedure)
  2. High-level implementation plan for implementing digital recordkeeping in an Archival institution
  3. Case studies

Infrastructural tools

  1. ADRI documentation standard
  2. ADRI website
  3. Communications plan

More information on each of these initiatives can be found in the ADRI Business Plan for 2005–2007.

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