This Technical Report:—establishes guidelines for creating and maintaining records in digital format only, where the original paper, or other non-digital source record, has been copied by digitizing;—establishes best practice guidelines for digitization to ensure the trustworthiness and reliability of records and enable consideration of disposal of the non-digital source records;—establishes best practice guidelines for the trustworthiness of the digitized records which may impact on the legal admissibility and evidential weight of such records;—establishes best practice guidelines for the accessibility of digitized records for as long as they are required;—specifies strategies to assist in creating digitized records fit for long-term retention;—establishes best practice guidelines for the management of non-digital source records following digitization.