National Archives of Australia in 2023 – digitisation of files
In 2023 the National Archives of Australia digitised 416,602 files (down from 575,597 in 2022). This chart shows the number of files digitised per day in 2023.
These files were drawn from 1,423 different series, but the vast bulk (81%) were from 4 series of World War Two service records. (This media release includes some details about the funding of the WW2 digitisation.)
Here’s the top twenty series by number of items digitised in 2023.
| series | series_title | total |
|---|---|---|
| B883 | Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 | 201,511 |
| A9301 | RAAF Personnel files of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and other ranks, 1921-1948 | 111,673 |
| A9300 | RAAF Officers Personnel files, 1921-1948 | 14,125 |
| B884 | Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 | 11,265 |
| A14435 | Stanley Fowler photographs showing the Australian fishing industry and coastline, numerical series with ‘LA’prefix | 10,512 |
| D3481 | Photographs (black and white, colour) of buildings, installations, sites, etc | 8,295 |
| A1 | Correspondence files, annual single number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency] | 7,571 |
| K1145 | Certificates of Exemption from Dictation Test, annual certificate number order | 4,169 |
| A13150 | Specifications, examiners reports and correspondence relating to the Registration of Victorian Patents - Second system | 3,941 |
| J853 | Architectural plans, annual single number series with alpha (denoting Papua New Guinea and discipline) prefix and/or alpha/numeric (denoting size and amendment) suffix | 3,322 |
| A2571 | Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla] | 2,204 |
| D1423 | Original plans (negatives), single number series with alpha prefix denoting discipline | 2,102 |
| AP67/1 | Personal documents of British migrants (including ex-service) in receipt of free and assisted passages | 2,058 |
| E1652 | Northern Territory Pastoral Applications (Pastoral Claims) | 1,822 |
| D5440 | Photographs of post office buildings, personnel and equipment, single number series (with variations) | 1,488 |
| C609 | Payment cards for employees' entitlements claims, alphabetical series | 1,317 |
| B3104 | Photographs, Trans-Australian Railway, single number series | 1,222 |
| MP1117/2 | Microfilm reels of RAAF Engineering Drawings | 1,168 |
| A2572 | Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla] | 1,130 |
| B6295 | Photographs and negatives of Commonwealth building sites and Works departmental activities, single number series | 1,113 |
For more data, see the naa-recently-digitised GitHub repository which runs a process every Sunday to save details of files digitised in the previous week.