Draft:Stephen Samuel Clarke

• Comment: Primary sources do not establish notability per WP:GNG. The lone secondary source (Stuff) is not alone enough.
  The cited sources must actually verify the information against which they are cited, and all material information must be supported by reliable sources. Now this is not the case. For example, ref #3 is there to support the statement "Clarke began his Archives and Records Management career as a Graduate Trainee in the West Glamorgan Archives Service". However, the source cited does not even mention Clarke. The following statement ("In 2004, he joined the Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales as a Records Manager") is not referenced at all. (These are just two examples of many.) DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:08, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

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Stephen Samuel Clarke (born 1970) is an Information Management thought leader, and was previously Aotearoa New Zealand's Chief Archivist. He moved into his role at Archives New Zealand in 2020, he was previously the Chief Data Officer at the New Zealand Transport Agency.

Early life and education

Clarke was born in Glasgow in 1970. He spent much of his childhood in Livingston, a New Town in West Lothian. Clarke earned an NVQ Diploma in Engineering and Computer Programming at West Lothian College in 1989, and a joint honours degree in History and Social Anthropology at Swansea University in 1998. Later, he attended archives school at the Department of Information & Library Studies at Aberystwyth University. He was awarded a Postgraduate diploma in Archives Administration and Records Management in 2004.

Career

Clarke began his Archives and Records Management career as a Graduate Trainee in the West Glamorgan Archives Service in 2001. In 2004, he joined the Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales as a Records Manager.

Public service (Aotearoa New Zealand)

Since moving to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2005, Clarke has served in a number of senior Information & Data Management positions in the NZ Public Sector, including Inland Revenue, the Office of the Auditor General, the Office of the Ombudsman, and Transpower New Zealand Ltd.

Archives New Zealand and Standards Development

However he initially emigrated in 2005 to New Zealand to join Archives New Zealand's Government Recordkeeping Programme (2015–2008) and Digital Preservation team (2008–2010).

In these roles, Clarke led a number of significant projects. He drafted two NZ Government Recordkeeping standards: the Create and Maintain Recordkeeping Standard (published 30/06/08. ISBN 978-0-478-18223-1) and the Digitisation Standard (published 29/01/07, ISBN 978-0-478-18220-0). He also drafted the NZ Government Digital Continuity Action Plan: Managing Information for Public Sector Efficiency (Archives New Zealand, ISBN 978-0-477-10098-4).

Clarke guided the Archives New Zealand Digitisation Standard through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adoption process to become ISO/TR13028 – 2010: Implementation Guidelines for Digitization of Records, International Organization for Standardization.

He also worked on the International Council on Archives (ICA) drafting committee, with Hans Hoffman and Adrian Cunningham to develop the ICA/ADRI Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments International Standard (ICA-Req) subsequently adopted as ISO 16175-1:2020 Information and documentation — Processes and functional requirements for software for managing records Part 1: Functional requirements and associated guidance for any applications that manage digital records.

From 2016 - 2017, Clarke worked DIA in the Office of the GCIO, where he led he work to develop the NZ Government Digital Service Design Standard. This was voted best International Digital Standard in The Digital Government Atlas: the world's best tools and resources 2018.

Chief Archivist

On 30 November 2020, Clarke became New Zealand's Chief Archivist, or Kaipupuri Matua, in te reo Māori. In this role, he published two Chief Archivist's Reports to Parliament and led the Artifical Intelligence for Information Management project, sponsored by the Westpac NZ Government Innovation Fund Proof of Concept in partnership with Microsoft and AWS in 2022, to demonstrate the power of AI for automating legislative compliance (Archives in the cloud — Exploring machine learning to transform our digital services for agencies) with the Public Records Act 2005.

Professional Associations

Clarke has served on a number of professional bodies as an elected councillor, including the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ; 2009–2010); the National Digital Forum (2009 – 2012) and the Records and Information Management Practitioners Alliance of Australasia (RIMPA; 2016–2009). He is currently a Chartered member of RIMPA, and was elected as a Global Ambassador in 2023.Archives New Zealand

Honours and awards

In 2012, Clarke was awarded the J. Eddis Linton Award: Most Outstanding Individual in 2012. This is the most prestigious award in Australasia's Records and Information Management industry, presented to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the profession. Clarke is currently a Chartered Member (MRIM) of RIMPA, and was elected as a Global Ambassador in 2023.

Publications

Journal articles

"Crowded Out: Records Management and the Web 2.0 Phenomenon". Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists, vol 37, Number 1, May 2009, pp. 118 -133. ISSN 0157-6895.

"Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World" (book review). Information Quarterly, Journal of the Records management Association of Australasia, vol. 24, Issue A, November 2008, pp. 57-58. ISSN 0816-200x.

International Standards

ISO 15489-1:2016 Information and documentation - Records management - Part 1: Concepts and principles International Organization for Standardization.

ISO16175-1 – 2010: Principles and functional requirements for records in electronic office environments - Part 1: Overview and statement of principles. International Organization for Standardization.

ISO16175-2 – 2011: Principles and functional requirements for records in electronic office environments - Part 2: Guidelines and functional requirements for digital records management systems

ISO1617-3 – 2010: Principles and functional requirements for records in electronic office environments – Part 3: Guidelines and functional requirements for records in business systems.

ISO/TR13028 – 2010: Implementation Guidelines for Digitization of Records, International Organization for Standardization.

ISO 18800: White Paper — Implementation guidelines for disposition of records, International Organization for Standardization.

ISO 30300:2011 Information and documentation -- Management systems for records -- Fundamentals and vocabulary, International Organization for Standardization.

ISO 30300 – 30301: White Paper – Management system for records: definition, design, integration to other management system standards, International Organization for Standardization.

Australasian Standards/Guides

SA/SNZ HB 168 Handbook - Document Control, April 2017, Standards Australia Limited/Standards New Zealand.

ANZ/NZS 1015:2011 Records management, Physical storage, Standards Australia Limited/Standards New Zealand, ISBN 978 0 7337 9937 2.

AS/NZS ISO 23081-3-2012 Information and documentation, Managing metadata for records, Part 3: Self-assessment method, Standards Australia Limited/Standards New Zealand, ISBN 978 1 74342 072 0.

SA/SNZ TR ISO 26122:2012 Information and documentation – Work process analysis for recordkeeping (ISO/TR 26122:2008, MOD), Standards Australia Limited/Standards New Zealand, ISBN 978 1 74342 296 0.

Create and Maintain Recordkeeping Standard, Archives New Zealand Recordkeeping Standard, published 30/06/08. ISBN 978-0-478-18223-1,

Digitisation Standard: Archives New Zealand Recordkeeping Standard, published 29/01/07, ISBN 978-0-478-18220-0 with Barbara Reed, Recordkeeping innovation Ltd.

Digital Service Design Standard: NZ [1] guidance/digital-service-design-standard/.

A Guide to the Public Records Act, Recordkeeping Guide, published 1/09/06 ISBN 0-478- 18219-8

Digital Continuity Action Plan: Managing Information for Public Sector Efficiency, Archives New Zealand, ISBN 978-0-477-10098-4.

External links

• Stephen Clarke on Linkedin: Stephen Clarke MRIM - InfoGovNZ | LinkedIn