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Box board specifications
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The National Archives' box board specifications

Subjects: box board, collection care, conservation, preparation for transfer, preservation, storage

Buildings records retention scheduling
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Retention scheduling advice for buildings records

Subjects: buildings records, retention

Cataloguing physical records: guidance for government departments
(PDF, 0.82 Mb)

This guidance is intended to give government cataloguers clear and simple advice about how to produce their work.

Subjects: best practice, cataloguing, metadata, preparation for transfer

Evaluating archival box board
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Advice on selecting the correct boards for display boxes

Subjects: box board, collection care, conservation, preservation

Identifying and specifying requirements for offsite storage of physical records
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The purpose of this guide is to cover the main issues an organisation needs to address when defining its required service level from an offsite storage contract for current or semi-current records offsite with a commercial contractor.

Subjects: building environment, records management, storage

Managing digital continuity
(PDF, 0.31 Mb)

This guidance provides a high level guide to the steps you can take to manage digital continuity. It assumes a basic understanding of what digital continuity means.

Subjects: business change, business value, change management, data migration and recovery, data reduction and storage, digital continuity, digital information management, electronic records management, information assets, information assurance, risk

Official publishing agreement
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An official publishing agreement for use by government departments and agencies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Subjects: best practice, hmso, official publications

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Box board specifications (PDF, 0.02 Mb)

Buildings records retention scheduling (PDF, 0.15 Mb)

Cataloguing physical records: guidance for government departments (PDF, 0.82 Mb)

Evaluating archival box board (PDF, 0.13 Mb)

Identifying and specifying requirements for offsite storage of physical records (PDF, 0.46 Mb)

Managing digital continuity (PDF, 0.31 Mb)

Official publishing agreement (DOC, 0.06 Mb)