Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public offices to implement records management programs in accordance with the standards established by the Keeper. All standards are available on the PROV website: www.prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/standards-policies-rdas.

Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public offices to implement records management programs in accordance with the standards established by the Keeper. All standards are available on the PROV website: www.prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/standards-policies-rdas

Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public offices to implement records management programs in accordance with the standards established by the Keeper. All standards are available on the PROV website: www.prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/standards-policies-rdas

Approved Public Record Office Storage Supplier – the PROV program for the storage of records which the Keeper of Public Records has approved for eventual destruction or which are awaiting a decision as to their archival value.

Public Record Office Victoria is the archives of the State Government of Victoria. We hold approximately 100kms of records from the mid 1830s to today, which we manage for use by the Government and people of Victoria. The Collection includes memories of events and decisions great and small that have shaped the history of the Colony and State of Victoria, as well as records of immigration and shipping, criminal trials and prisons, premiers and governors, royal commissions, boards of inquiry, wills and probates and more. The Public are able to order records online and then visit the Public Reading Room at the Victorian Archives Centre to view the records that are retrieved from the repository by PROV staff. Increasing numbers of records are being digitised so that records can be both ordered and viewed online however to date, 99% of Victorian State Government historical records are only available in original format.

APROSS sites are commercial facilities that have been inspected by PROV and approved for the storage of temporary and un-sentenced public records. For a complete list of APROSS sites see our website: www.prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/certified-suppliers-vendors/apross-for-agencies

The Public Administration Act 2004 requires the State Services Authority (the Authority) to establish and maintain a Register of Instruments and to make it accessible to the public at all times without charge. It must be kept in electronic form, and be available on the Internet. The Register of Instruments contains up-to-date versions of codes of conduct and standards issued by the Public Sector Standards Commissioner, Orders made by the Governor in Council, and regulations issued pursuant to the Public Administration Act.

This standard sets minimum requirements for public offices' records management programs and to establish principles to guide public offices in establishing and maintaining those programs.

Public Record Office Victoria has compiled a short administrative history for every government agency whose records we hold, as well as a history of every recordkeeping 'series' (or collection) that has been transferrred to us. This information helps researchers identify who might have collected relevant information and how that information is compiled. This data has been made available through an OAI-PMH interface to Research Data Australia. Currently details exist for roughly 2,500 agencies and 14,500 series. Use the OAI protocol to retrieve data: e.g. http://metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/oai/query?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=rif