Archiving content on nsw.gov.au

OneCX responsibilities

The nsw.gov.au team retains an administrative record, including times and dates, of when content was published and unpublished on nsw.gov.au. This record is held within the nsw.gov.au CMS for a period of 2 years.

Agency responsibilities

Agencies have their own specific retention and disposal authorities, listed on the State Records website. They must manage government records and information in line with:

• the State Records Act 1998
• general retention and disposal authorities
• their organisation’s information management policy.

When content is ready to be decommissioned, agencies should refer to their records management advisors for guidance on: 

• the types of digital information that should be retained  
• how long the record needs to be retained for  
• the best format for record keeping, for example, PDF or PNG 
• the agency’s storage location of the record, such as TRIM or Objective.

Agencies should be prepared to recover records of archived content, in case a member of the public makes an informal or formal information request.

Archiving your website

Once migration of content to nsw.gov.au is complete, agencies must follow relevant record keeping requirements when archiving content or decommissioning its website.