Preserving information and records means ensuring they remain accessible and usable. The lifespan of your records depends on how they are managed and preserved.

Advice for the preservation and storage of photographic prints and film.

Advice on the preservation and storage of gramophone discs.

How to preserve objects made from wood, textiles, plastic, metal or other materials.

We provide specialised services for preserving and exhibiting archival documents, including training, materials testing and preparing loan items for exhibition.

There are a variety of methods for preserving maps and plans.

Preserving Archival Digital Records Transferred from Commonwealth Agencies

The National Archives of Australia has two main strategies for preserving records: provide controlled storage conditions for all record formats, treat formats and records most at risk

The National Archives of Australia's Preservation Policy will drive the development of strategies to address our collection’s inherent preservation challenges.

The Preservation Digitisation Standards set out the National Archives standards for digitisation of physical records of archival value in all formats.

How to store and preserve information to make sure it can be easily found, used and managed over time.

An important aspect of digital continuity is digital preservation. Many records have retention periods longer than the life of the systems they are captured in.

Despite advances in digital technology, Microforms - microfiche and microfilms, are still a useful record format

Store business information securely and preserve it in a useable condition for as long as required for business needs and community access.

Emulation involves recreating the behaviour of old hardware environments on a current computer, which enables obsolete software to be installed and run.

The term 'magnetic media' is used to describe any record format where information is recorded to and retrieved from a coated matrix that can be magnetised.

New Preservation Digitisation Standards set out the technical requirements for digitising physical records in line with international best practice.

The term 'volume' means an item in the form of a bound book. Volumes may be bound in a variety of styles and materials to protect the pages inside.

The term 'optical disk' describes a range of disk types where the stored information is read by a laser.

Speech by National Archives' Director-General David Fricker at the opening of the National Archives Preservation Facility, June 2017.