Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement (DLIR) Program
The National Library of Australia recognised in 2010 the need to replace its technology to meet the growing demand for digital content. The Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement (DLIR) program ensures that material of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people is collected, preserved and accessible in digital form.
The program allows the Library to digitise more physical and analogue collections, and also help with the management and preservations of its own collections.
This was a major program that supports the strategic direction of the Library. Its creation and implementation was the largest and one of the highest priority projects the IT Division has undertaken.
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Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and what does not warrant the use of limited preservation resources, and in terms of opening up conversations about what is required in order to achieve preservation intentions. This paper describes an approach being explored by the National Library of Australia to negotiate formal and reviewable statements of preservation intent for each of the digital collections in its care with those responsible for those collections. The paper looks at the relationship with the widely discussed concept of significant properties , as well as the other benefits that the approach is delivering. The paper also looks at the preservation intent statements for archived web collections at the NLA as an illustrative case.
1 Introduction
Where opportunity exists, conceptual leaders stand ready and eager to innovate. The mobile web provides superb food for innovation, as evidenced by the immersive Ludwig II app by the Bavarian State Library, which includes augmented reality features like 3D pattern recognition so that historical digital objects appear on the mobile screen, triggered by the physical location of the user.
It’s also demonstrated by NASA, who created a mobile portal to learning about space through their latest images from space, video, news and social media activity. The Eyewitness app acts as a showcase for the best photography featured in the
Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2018
Senate Order for entity contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2018 - 31 December 2018
Pursuant to the Senate Order for entity contracts the following table sets out contracts entered into by the National Library of Australia which provide for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more (GST inclusive) and which:
have not been fully performed as at 31 December 2018, or
have been entered into during the 12 months prior to 31 December 2018.
Most of the contracts listed contain confidentiality provisions of a general nature that are designed to protect the confidential information of the parties that may be obtained or generated in carrying out the contract.
Our community
Australians have an appetite for stories, culture, knowledge and ideas from Australia, as well as from the wider world. The Library will welcome a growing number of physical and virtual visitors, see significant growth in the use and re-use of online services and content, facilitate increasing use of its unique and rare collections, and reach diverse communities in Australia’s cities and regions.
Australians value opportunities to meet, debate, consume and produce new knowledge, and to give free rein to creative expression. Their preferences for how they do so will evolve but they expect digital access to be the norm. This has and will transform what is possible and what is desirable from the Library as the lines between collection, curation and access and those between the producers and users of these services are increasingly blurred.