Governing the Digital Age: Building a Unified Infrastructure for Public Records Preservation

Public agencies and state archives face a growing and urgent challenge: digital records are proliferating, but there is no unified, simple infrastructure that allows for proper preservation and long-term governance.

The result? Agencies adopt inadequate systems, records are lost or incorrectly destroyed, and archives receive what they can, when they can—if they can. All this despite legal mandates requiring certain records to be preserved and made accessible.

The lack of coordination between agencies and archives leads to digital chaos: loss of public memory, non-compliance, increasing costs, and greater risk.

This webinar brings together two perspectives: that of the archives, which must ensure long-term preservation, and that of the agencies, which need simple, standards-based tools to manage retention, transfer, and access. Together, we will explore how a unified infrastructure can prevent the fragmentation that is weakening digital governance across governments today.

What will you learn in this webinar?

✅ Why it’s crucial to act before agencies adopt inadequate solutions for long-term preservation.
✅ How to bring public agencies into the scope of the preservation system to ensure compliance, efficiency, and sustainability.
✅ What criteria Pennsylvania used to define a viable, scalable solution—and why they chose Libnova.
✅ How archives can take a proactive approach to managing both permanent and long-term temporary records.
✅ The role key stakeholders like State CIO and Budget Offices play in driving adoption of these solutions.

This webinar brings together two key voices in the digital transformation of the public sector:
🔹 Miguel Blanco, Implementation Manager at Libnova, will present how a standardized infrastructure can help connect public agencies with state archives from the moment digital records are created.
🔹 David Carmicheal, former Archivist of the State Archives of Pennsylvania, will share his experience leading a pioneering statewide initiative to include government agencies in the digital preservation system from the beginning of the records lifecycle.

Who should attend:

Leaders of state and national archives, public sector CIOs, information managers, compliance officers, and IT professionals in government looking for digital preservation solutions for public records.

This isn’t just about storage—it’s about preserving institutional memory, meeting legal mandates, and ensuring future