Our work on digital preservation is aimed at ensuring that Parliament’s digital resources will remain authentic and accessible in the future to anyone who needs them, despite the inevitable changes to their hardware and software environment.
Publications on this page will mainly be of interest to other digital preservation practictioners but also to anyone interested in our progress in this area.
The principles that guide our approach to digital preservation
What we are trying to achieve and why
Our plan for digital preservation up to 2012/13
Initial Preservation Needs Assessment
A flow chart to enable IT system developers and project managers to decide whether their projects face a digital preservation challenge
Digital Preservation Decision Tree
A more detailed flow chart for IT system developers and project managers to inform decisions about systems design
Advice on digitisation projects for project managers and other staff