Digitisation standard: Archives New Zealand

This Standard is for use in the design and conduct of responsible digitisation by all organisations which are covered by the Public Records Act 2005. Meeting the mandatory requirements of this Standard will enable public offices and local authorities to meet their legislative obligations and dispose of original source records after digitisation. This applies to records where the business action takes place on the digitised record, rather than on the non-digital original source record. Public offices may then implement the General Disposal Authority: Digitised Original Source Records. The Standard sets out the criteria that will allow local authorities to be confident that they have met the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002 and dispose of the original source protected records.