The NEA Expert Group on Archiving for Radioactive Waste Management (EGAR) is organising the workshop The medium and the message: Challenges and solutions in selecting and preserving records of radioactive waste to bring together the work of the two sub-groups – the “what” and the “how” – to develop an integrated understanding of what is required to archive the records of radioactive waste management. The relationship of the “Key information file” (KIF) to the SER will also be considered.
The workshop is initiated and led by EGAR and hosted by the Swedish Radiation Authority in Solna, Sweden. The workshop is public and includes an optional visit to the Swedish National Archives which originate from the archives of the Royal Chancery, and cover 400 years of experience of information management. What will be in the archives in 400 years? How should we secure today's and tomorrow’s societal information through time and space? These are important questions for the National Archive and society as a whole to explore.