St. John's office computer backups - documents and MYOB (finance):

• 1997 - backups including numbered series over several of 12 3.5" floppy disks
• 1998 (circa) - backups including numbered series over several of 13 3.5" floppy disks
• 11/2002 - 4/2004 -11 CD-Rom disks
• 11/2004 - 10/2009 - 31 CD-Rom disks
• 7/2008 - 11/2009 - 31 CD-Rom disks
• 5/2002 - 8/2007 - 19 CD-Rom and DVD-Rom disks (some Ghost and server backups)

St. John's - audio tape (reel-to-reel)

• Audio interview - Dennis Hodgkinson interviews 94-year-old Fred Jones, retired churchwarden, in 1969. This has been digitised, transcribed and uploaded to our website.

St. John's and Riverlinks - various backups - USB external hard disk 

• CollectiveAccess history database backup at 2/1/2004
• Various backups of St. John's documents to 2010

St. John's Church - backup image of staff laptop (Ghost 8.3 format) - June 2008

• Set of 3 CDs - may contain documents and photos from that era

200 Years Celebration of Ordained Anglican Ministry in Northern Tasmania

• 21 May 2011  - digital photographs on DVD-ROM - 2 disks (also on website)

St. John's Church - Conservation Management Plan

• Paul Davies Architects & Heritage Consultants - April 2014 1 of DVD-ROM disk

St. John's Church - Internal Redevelopment - 2023-2024 - USB thumb drive

• Digital photographs of church interior taken by Danielle Freak at various stages of the works

Riverlinks - various backups on CD-Rom or DVD-Rom

• Backups from the Riverlinks parish period 2004 - 2019 - 20 disks
• Full backup of all Riverlinks computer content - extracted from office computer and backups - to 2019

Spare 300gb USB2 external hard disk

By the early 2000s, backup disks were being created for documents, digital photographs and databases, at St. John's, and progressively at the Riverlinks churches - St. Aidan's, St. David's and George Town. 

There is considerable overlap between the digitised materials in this box, and printed versions of the same documents, particularly for the earlier years of the digital era. Digital photos are also accessible elsewhere, through our online collection (mainly St. John's materials) and on our servers (several thousand Riverlinks photographs.)

A challenge in the digital era is to ensure the survival of “born digital” documents and materials. Not only are digital materials easily deleted - accidentally or by persons not understanding the need to keep the historical record, but the storage media themselves do not keep indefinitely, hence the need to store materials in more than one location.