The Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI) is a collaboration between all of the national, state and territory public records institutions in Australia and New Zealand.
ADRI promotes a single Australasian approach to digital public recordkeeping across all jurisdictions and promotes awareness of the challenge of digital records. ADRI provides a space for communication and information sharing between the members, maximising the use of their limited collective resources. ADRI focuses on the development, articulation and implementation of a common set of strategies for enabling the making, keeping and using of digital records. More...
ADRI was launched in May 2004, with a speech by the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Dr Peter Shergold. Not available on the PM & C website during the 2007 election care-taker period, the full text of Dr Shergold's speech 'Digital Amnesia: The Danger in Forgetting the Future' has been archived by the National Library’s web archive, PANDORA.